[linux-dvb] Re: Total freezes

2003-07-04 Thread Alistair Hamilton
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 12:23, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > Alistair Hamilton wrote: > > > > It is not the mplyer because the same thing happens if I direct the output > > of dvbstream to a file. It stops at around 1hour/2Gbyes of perfect stream. > > Hm, is it *always* the 2G limit (-> possible p

[linux-dvb] Re: Any DVB-T card recomendation - or should i continue with my Nova-T ;-)

2003-07-04 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 23:31 04/07/2003, you wrote: Is there any card that can be recomended and that works well? - Or is there any other solution than buying a fullfeatured card only for the OSD? I think the Nova-T works quite well for me. Small "locks" in the pictures sometimmes only. Hauppage WinTV DVB-T for approx

[linux-dvb] Any DVB-T card recomendation - or should i continue with my Nova-T ;-)

2003-07-04 Thread Lars Fredriksson
Hi! There have been a little discussion about DVB-T cards at the list now for a while - and I'm thinking of buying a fullfeatured DVB-T card for my VDR ... I'm currently using an Hauppage Nova-T ("old" version) and a DXR3-card for receiving DVB-T broadcasts ... but it feels like the fullfeatured

[linux-dvb] Re: skystar2

2003-07-04 Thread Peter Schildmann
Hi, On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:21:00AM +0200, gigyz wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:17:48 +0200 > Jan Hendrik Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have always troble with this card! I don't know why! > > > > I want to use linuxtv-dvb-1.0.0-pre3 and skystar2-0.2.tar.gz ! here is a patch for

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB Feature Wishlist

2003-07-04 Thread Robert Schlabbach
From: "Ralph Metzler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It is not really a surprise to me that they gave up on the AV7200. > When we met with TI in early 2000 they talked about releasing the chip > in late 2000. This was changed again and again. Last time I heard > about it it was supposed to be summer 2002.

[linux-dvb] Re: FYI: Philips response to the Linux community

2003-07-04 Thread Robert Schlabbach
From: "Ralph Metzler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At least from their membership agreement document it sounds > like they want to make everything really open (as in open source, > not open tv). "Member input" is supposed to come from public domain > or open source licensed material and should not be cove

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB Feature Wishlist

2003-07-04 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: > Ralph Metzler wrote: > > > > The AV7200 is the successor of the AV711x. > > s/is/was supposed to be/ > > > > A box with AV72xx developed by Convergence was publically > > announced by Galaxis over 2 years ago. > > Really? Yes, really. Well, it was not

[linux-dvb] Re: Siemens DVB-C and analog support - I first test

2003-07-04 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Frank Weise wrote: > > After receiving all file I jumped into the build-2.4 directory an do the make > according to the README. I did the same on the analog-2.4 directory. After all I > loaded the modules from the analog-2.4 directory and the modules that doesn't > exists in the analog directory I

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB Feature Wishlist

2003-07-04 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Ralph Metzler wrote: > > The AV7200 is the successor of the AV711x. s/is/was supposed to be/ > A box with AV72xx developed by Convergence was publically > announced by Galaxis over 2 years ago. Really? > I don't know what became of it. > > Google shows that others are also working on Linux

[linux-dvb] FYI: Philips response to the Linux community

2003-07-04 Thread Marcus Metzler
Ralph Metzler writes: > Robert Schlabbach writes: > > Hi, > > > > since Philips has been so unwilling to help out the Linux community with > > data sheets, I had sent them a request to clarify their position on Linux. > > Today, I got a response pointing me to this: > > > > > htt

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB Feature Wishlist

2003-07-04 Thread Ralph Metzler
Robert Schlabbach writes: > From: "Holger Waechtler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > just a side note: there have been rumors that TT bought all remaining > > av711x chips and the IP rights, no idea if it's true, but this fact > > might explain why they're using this beast again and again. Quality is

[linux-dvb] FYI: Philips response to the Linux community

2003-07-04 Thread Ralph Metzler
Robert Schlabbach writes: > Hi, > > since Philips has been so unwilling to help out the Linux community with > data sheets, I had sent them a request to clarify their position on Linux. > Today, I got a response pointing me to this: > > http://www.newscenter.philips.com/InformationCenter/N

[linux-dvb] Siemens DVB-C and analog support - I first test

2003-07-04 Thread Frank Weise
Hello, this is my first post in this list. First off all thank you for your great work on the DVB drivers. I have a DVB-C from Siemens with analog modul. After the post from Michael, that basic support for the analogmodul exists, I checked the dvb-kernel cvs out today. After receiving all file I

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB Feature Wishlist

2003-07-04 Thread Jon Burgess
Robert Schlabbach wrote: While we're at it, does anyone know what the "TMS320AV7200" is? I found The TMS320 range is a very large series of chip based around a DSP core. I think this is the number one line of CPU's made by TI. The "AV" is presumably some variant which includes some audio/video b

[linux-dvb] Re: Skystar2.c

2003-07-04 Thread Kovacs Balazs
Holger Waechtler wrote: > > Kovacs Balazs wrote: > > Would somebody update the CVS with a modified version of skystar2.c to > > compile with gcc 2.95? > > :) what about you? > > > (need thinx to declare before first using) > > please report the exact places where this error occurs. > Or even be

[linux-dvb] FYI: Philips response to the Linux community

2003-07-04 Thread Robert Schlabbach
Hi, since Philips has been so unwilling to help out the Linux community with data sheets, I had sent them a request to clarify their position on Linux. Today, I got a response pointing me to this: http://www.newscenter.philips.com/InformationCenter/NewsCenter/FPressRelease.asp?lArticleId=2919 I'

[linux-dvb] Re: problems wit technotrent dvb-s cllone

2003-07-04 Thread Holger Waechtler
Maximilian Ronniger wrote: hello, some time ago I bought a SL DVB-S card at Conrad (a German warehouse), because this card was the cheapest one. unluckily I had to find out that there where no Linux drivers. using the actuell trivers (linuxtv-dvb-1.0.0-pre3.tar.gz)there is a driver which kind of w

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB Feature Wishlist

2003-07-04 Thread Robert Schlabbach
From: "Holger Waechtler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > just a side note: there have been rumors that TT bought all remaining > av711x chips and the IP rights, no idea if it's true, but this fact > might explain why they're using this beast again and again. Quality is > not always the ultimate decision crit

[linux-dvb] Re: Skystar2.c

2003-07-04 Thread Holger Waechtler
Kovacs Balazs wrote: Would somebody update the CVS with a modified version of skystar2.c to compile with gcc 2.95? :) what about you? (need thinx to declare before first using) please report the exact places where this error occurs. Or even better: prepare a patch! :) Holger -- Info: To unsubs

[linux-dvb] Re: skystar2

2003-07-04 Thread Holger Waechtler
Kovacs Balazs wrote: gigyz wrote: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:17:48 +0200 Jan Hendrik Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have always troble with this card! I don't know why! I want to use linuxtv-dvb-1.0.0-pre3 and skystar2-0.2.tar.gz ! vp310.c:23:36: linux/dvb/dvb_frontend.h: Datei oder Verzeichni

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB Feature Wishlist

2003-07-04 Thread Holger Waechtler
Ralph Metzler wrote: > (IMHO the AV7110 is a piece of junk and any product with it should be > avoided. And TI should publically apologize for developing, but never > finishing it;) The real problem is that the chip is probably very cheap now. Furthermore, companies like TT have written a lot

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB driver-related system hang with SuSE 8.2's SMPkernel

2003-07-04 Thread Holger Waechtler
Dr J A Gow wrote: Hello, I have an interesting problem with the latest (1.0.0-pre3) DVB driver set when running on a stock SuSE 8.2 SMP kernel. This manifests itself as a complete system lockup. No oops, no trap dump, nothing, just a frozen system. Before I go any further, just a word abou

[linux-dvb] Re: Spectral Inversion (was Re: Re: patch for scan(-t bitfield select))

2003-07-04 Thread Holger Waechtler
Robert Schlabbach wrote: So to not have a spectral inversion in the tuner, you would have to have a tuner in which you _subtract_ the IF center frequency from the desired target frequency to get the PLL frequency. Do such tuner modules really exist? If not, they *all* spectrally invert the signal..

[linux-dvb] Re: Problems with mutiple multicast channels andlinuxtv

2003-07-04 Thread Holger Waechtler
One last question what is the meaning of the following messages in /var/log/messages: Jul 1 12:33:58 dwdsat2 kernel: dvb0_0: filter mac=00 d0 5c 22 43 40 I get them very frequently, how can I get rid of them? disable the debug printk()'s in dvb_net.c, line 35 by changing '#if 1' to '#it 0'. We

[linux-dvb] Occasional pause in video stream

2003-07-04 Thread Pete Martin
I have just updated my system to use the latest drivers (3rd July 2003 CVS dvb-kernel) and have noticed that I am now getting some occasional pauses in the video stream when watching a program from a terestial source. The update was so that I could use one of the latest TDA10045 cards. My previous