[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf syntax?

2003-11-17 Thread Chris Samuel
> Anyway, the main problem is that there are too many different formats. > It would be nice to agree on a standard format and have a simple library > to support it. I would like to know how other DVB software authors think > about that. I'm not an author, just a user, but I'd strongly suggest cons

[linux-dvb] Kernel Oops after setting the same PID for PES and section filter

2003-11-17 Thread Carsten Juttner
Hi, we use the Linux DVB-API Version 3 for the tuxbox project (PPC-powered settop box) and recently we had some bug reports concerning a Kernel Oops during streaming. I was able to reproduce and trace it, found out it occured in the dvb_demux.c and following this I tried to get the relations o

[linux-dvb] Re: Problems with Hauppauge

2003-11-17 Thread Steffen Beyer
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:50:22 +0100 Steffen Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At least my test script shows no errors anymore! Update: I did some recordings this evening and one from around 22:00h is broken (unusable). Apparently I'm walking the edge now regarding block errors. Regards, -- Stef

[linux-dvb] Re: Oops in dvbdmx_release_ts_feed (2.6.0-test9)

2003-11-17 Thread Christoph Cullmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Johannes wrote: > > I see two problems: > > - spinlocks only disable irqs on the local CPU, so every access > to the feed_list must be protected against accesses from another > CPU to be SMP save; but dvb_dmx_swfilter_packet() might be problema

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-kernel bugs

2003-11-17 Thread Nico
Wolfgang Thiel wrote: Hmh: that's a problem. Perhaps, it is as broken as it used to be? If anything goes wrong (like the wind blowing the dish away), I have such a wind? to restart the driver: if it was szap -r and catting /dev/dvb/ad.. to mplayer, this doesn't work anymore: no data (resta

[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf syntax?

2003-11-17 Thread Jamie Honan
> I must admit that the ?zap formats suck, but so does vdr's format, IMHO. > > Anyway, the main problem is that there are too many different formats. > It would be nice to agree on a standard format and have a simple library > to support it. I would like to know how other DVB software authors thin

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-17 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Ralph Metzler wrote: > > Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > Ralph Metzler wrote: > > > Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > > > > > > The av7110 destroys the adaptation fields if you record and watch > > > > at the same time (record with DMX_PES_OTHER to prevent this). However, > > > > the DMX_GE

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-kernel bugs

2003-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Thiel
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:05:05PM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > Wolfgang Thiel wrote: > > > > this morning's dvb-kernel CVS has at least two problems: > > twice, dprintk has been inserted at a wrong place (before declaring > > the variables of the routine, which follow later) > > Most of u

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Ralph Metzler wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > > > I thought the TS packets are grabbed from the TPP before they > > reach the decoder? So we should get unaltered PES? > > No, AFAIK, you cannot get all packets of the video PID before they reach > the decoder. The TPP does all the writi

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-17 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: > Ralph Metzler wrote: > > Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > > > > The av7110 destroys the adaptation fields if you record and watch > > > at the same time (record with DMX_PES_OTHER to prevent this). However, > > > the DMX_GET_STC should give you correct values.

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Ralph Metzler wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > > The av7110 destroys the adaptation fields if you record and watch > > at the same time (record with DMX_PES_OTHER to prevent this). However, > > the DMX_GET_STC should give you correct values. Also, AFAIK the PES > > header is not altere

[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf syntax?

2003-11-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Gerd Knorr wrote: > > > vdr format has a little bit more detail on, especially for dvb-t > > users. Probably best to go with this if you are just looking for > > something to parse into some other app > > Yea, I'm looking for something to use with xawtv ... Good to hear! > I also like the vdr

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-17 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: > Pekka Virtanen wrote: > > [...] > > Can you print that in hex to see if there is just one bit flipped? Does not look like this is the case here. > The av7110 destroys the adaptation fields if you record and watch > at the same time (record with DMX_PES_OTHER t

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-kernel bugs

2003-11-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Wolfgang Thiel wrote: > > this morning's dvb-kernel CVS has at least two problems: > twice, dprintk has been inserted at a wrong place (before declaring > the variables of the routine, which follow later) Most of us use gcc-3.3.2 which is more ISO-C99 compliant than older gccs. Thus we usually do

[linux-dvb] Re: scan misbehavior

2003-11-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Michal Svec wrote: > > I have some problems with the scan behavior, in particular with its vdr > output. In normal (zap) mode, it outputs the list of found services, but > the vdr list is empty: ... > bash$ ./scan -o vdr dvb-s/Astra-19.2E-sr ... > WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0010

[linux-dvb] Re: New project - BudgetTV is running now!

2003-11-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Ivan Gerasimov wrote: > I have the plesure to present you something new here: > > http://home.t-online.de/home/intek-bg/BTV/bg/index.html > > Inform yourself! For those who are to lazy to click on links: BudgetTV aims to provide something like vdr functionality for Budget/Nova type cards. It is

[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf syntax?

2003-11-17 Thread Gerd Knorr
> > >man 5 vdr > > > > Ah, great. Where do these config files come from? Is there some scan utility? > > scan has an option to generate in either vdr or zap format. Great. > vdr format has a little bit more detail on, especially for dvb-t > users. Probably best to go with this if you are

[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf syntax?

2003-11-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Gerd Knorr wrote: > > yes, scan in the drivers package > > Does that also write vdr syntax? From a first look it looks more like > it does szap/czap/tzap syntax only ... -o vdr Please complain if it doesn't work for you. When I wrote szap I started out with a vdr format channels.conf as downl

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Pekka Virtanen wrote: > > I have two computers, one with Full featured DVB-C the other with a > Budget DVB-C. I ran the same software on both computers, on the same > channel and the same time of course. > > The software prints the video PTS on the console. The results are below: > > FF DVB-C:

[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf syntax?

2003-11-17 Thread Nico
static const char *usage = "\n" "usage: %s [options...] [-c | initial-tuning-data-file]\n" "scan doesn't do frequency scans, hence it needs initial\n" "tuning data for at least one transponder/channel.\n" "-cscan on currently tuned transponder only\n" "-v verbose (

[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf syntax?

2003-11-17 Thread Gerd Knorr
> yes, scan in the drivers package Does that also write vdr syntax? From a first look it looks more like it does szap/czap/tzap syntax only ... > >> man 5 vdr Gerd -- You have a new virus in /var/mail/kraxel -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linu

[linux-dvb] Re: Problems with Hauppauge

2003-11-17 Thread Steffen Beyer
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:39:22 +0100 Claas Hilbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=7825&sid=&threadview=0 > > there is a major problem with newer tt-budget cards. I am in contact > > with > Did you get any response via private e-mail? Or is there a

[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf syntax?

2003-11-17 Thread Gerd Knorr
Sergei Haller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > VDR's syntax can be found in > >man 5 vdr Ah, great. Where do these config files come from? Is there some scan utility? Gerd -- You have a new virus in /var/mail/kraxel -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf syntax?

2003-11-17 Thread Sergei Haller
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Gerd Knorr (GK) wrote: GK> ... Every utility (szap, tzap, czap) seems to use a different syntax. GK> And vdr uses yet another one ... GK> GK> Is all this documented somewhere? VDR's syntax can be found in man 5 vdr or, in VDR's src directory: man -l vdr.5 c ya

[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf syntax?

2003-11-17 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi, I'm using szap and I believe all zap's use the same format ? Regards, Manu On Monday 17 November 2003 18:05, you wrote: > Hi *, > > I'm just trying to figure how the channels.conf syntax looks like and > I'm somewhat confused now. Every utility (szap, tzap, czap) seems to > use a d

[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf syntax?

2003-11-17 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi, My channels.conf looks like this, with the new scan, earlier instead of the numbers([0015]), ie, with the older scan i used to get names. The Channel Name, Transponder, polarization,? , Symbol Rate, Video ID, Audio ID, ? The two ?'s i don't know what they are... [0015]:1261

[linux-dvb] channels.conf syntax?

2003-11-17 Thread Gerd Knorr
Hi *, I'm just trying to figure how the channels.conf syntax looks like and I'm somewhat confused now. Every utility (szap, tzap, czap) seems to use a different syntax. And vdr uses yet another one ... Is all this documented somewhere? Gerd -- You have a new virus in /var/mail/kraxel -

[linux-dvb] V4 and diseqc

2003-11-17 Thread Nico
Hi, what about adding an diseqc 1.0 implementation in the drivers? having to send i2c messages from userland really sucks. For the most common cases (such as when the switch can only address 4 LNBs) I'd like to be able to select LNB using a member of struct dvb_qpsk_parameters while retaining

[linux-dvb] Re: [linux-dvb]Problems with Hauppauge

2003-11-17 Thread Claas Hilbrecht
http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=7825&sid=&threadview=0 there is a major problem with newer tt-budget cards. I am in contact with Did you get any response via private e-mail? Or is there anything new to report? --- Claas Hilbrecht http://www.jucs-kramkiste.de -- Info: To unsub