[linux-dvb] Re: Couple of frontend questions

2004-03-03 Thread Oliver Endriss
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 20:57, Joerg Riechardt wrote: what do I have to do to disable zif-zag scan? edit dvb_frontend.c? But what exactly do I have to change? Just set j=0 at the beginning of dvb_frontend_recover() in dvb_frontend.c. Maybe these issues will be fixed soon for dvb-kernel (see

[linux-dvb] Re: Couple of frontend questions

2004-03-03 Thread Oliver Endriss
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 23:37, Andrew de Quincey wrote: In the past I did some tests and found that tuning is always faster if zig-zag scan is disabled. So the first thing I do after a check-out is disabling this cra^Wstuff. - Never had any problems (QPSK BSRU6, Grundig 29504-451).

[linux-dvb] Re: tzap (apps-1.1.0) modification

2004-03-03 Thread Alex Birkett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't find a simple (command line) way to record a DVB-T program from a channel for a set length of time eg. scheduled from an at job. I would like something similar that sets the file name of the recorded program to to the name of the program that is sent over

[linux-dvb] Re: tzap (apps-1.1.0) modification

2004-03-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't find a simple (command line) way to record a DVB-T program from a channel for a set length of time eg. scheduled from an at job. My quick hack to tzap.c (from linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/util/szap/tzap.c) is available from

[linux-dvb] Frontend experimental patch v1

2004-03-03 Thread Andrew de Quincey
Hi, this patch does the following: FE_RESET. This is removed. FE_CAN_CLEAN_SETUP. This is removed. FE_POLL. This is added as a more meaningful replacement for FE_RESET. Currently it is only used by the ves1x93 frontend. FE_POLL will be called repeatedly after the frontend parameters have been

[linux-dvb] Re: Preparation for 1.1.1 release: Testers wanted

2004-03-03 Thread Manuel Hartl
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Hi all, I've tagged the files for the linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1 release in CVS. It would be nice if some of you could find the time to check if the drivers build and work fine, especially with the latest dvb_frontend changes. is this just the same as in 2.6.4-rc1? because

[linux-dvb] Re: Frontend experimental patch v1

2004-03-03 Thread Andreas Share
Hi, this patch does the following: FE_RESET. This is removed. FE_CAN_CLEAN_SETUP. This is removed. FE_POLL. This is added as a more meaningful replacement for FE_RESET. Currently it is only used by the ves1x93 frontend. FE_POLL will be called repeatedly after the frontend parameters

[linux-dvb] AW: tzap (apps-1.1.0) modification

2004-03-03 Thread Schuett Thomas EXT
Hi Bernard, I couldn't find a simple (command line) way to record a DVB-T program from a channel for a set length of time eg. scheduled from an at job. My quick hack to tzap.c (from linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/util/szap/tzap.c) is available ... That's a very good idea to put it right into tzap.

[linux-dvb] Re: AW: tzap (apps-1.1.0) modification

2004-03-03 Thread Nico
Schuett Thomas EXT wrote: Hi Bernard, I couldn't find a simple (command line) way to record a DVB-T program from a channel for a set length of time eg. scheduled from an at job. My quick hack to tzap.c (from linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/util/szap/tzap.c) is available ... That's a very

[linux-dvb] passivCard == noOSD ?

2004-03-03 Thread Schuett Thomas EXT
Title: passivCard == noOSD ? I have two general questions about cards without mpeg decoder: 1. Is this right: passivCard == noOSD ? Possible no-answer : If a card has no mpeg decoder and no video-out, then it has no picture, and so it has nothing to render the OSD into. Possible

[linux-dvb] Re: AW: tzap (apps-1.1.0) modification

2004-03-03 Thread Carsten Koch
Schuett Thomas EXT wrote: ... (I have left the mailing list around version 0.5, when it became imposible just to cat /dev/video file.mpg. I implemented a time limit just via dd if=/dev/video count=... and stood with that old version until now :-) Have you ever considered using VDR instead?

[linux-dvb] Re: Preparation for 1.1.1 release: Testers wanted

2004-03-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Manuel Hartl wrote: Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Hi all, I've tagged the files for the linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1 release in CVS. It would be nice if some of you could find the time to check if the drivers build and work fine, especially with the latest dvb_frontend changes. is this just the same

[linux-dvb] Holding tuned frequency after szap!

2004-03-03 Thread Kelvin Woods
Hi, I'm sure I've read (on this list I believe) that after you tune your DVB card with szap the card will lose the frequency after a few seconds. This indeed is easily observable. If you don't keep szap running the card loses the frequency with several seconds. I believe that some method has

[linux-dvb] Re: AW: Re: AW: tzap (apps-1.1.0) modification

2004-03-03 Thread Nico
Schuett Thomas EXT wrote: Hi Nico, the last dvbstream (from cvs) can, and with 1 process; you can even replicate pids on multiple outputs So one can do a limited record with dvbstream | dd count=... file.mpg also? ts yes, but you can also do much better things: dvbstream -f ...

[linux-dvb] AW: Re: AW: tzap (apps-1.1.0) modification

2004-03-03 Thread Schuett Thomas EXT
Hi Carsten, (I have left the mailing list around version 0.5, when it became imposible just to cat /dev/video file.mpg. I implemented a time limit just via dd if=/dev/video count=... and stood with that old version until now :-) Have you ever considered using VDR instead? Of course I did.

[linux-dvb] AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: tzap (apps-1.1.0) modification

2004-03-03 Thread Schuett Thomas EXT
yes, but you can also do much better things: dvbstream -f ... -o:file1.ts 512 650 0 8191-o:file2.ts 513 660 0 8191 -o:file3.ts 514 670 and so on; there's also a timer after which the recording stops. Cheers! ... I was gone for too long ;-) -- Info: To unsubscribe send a

[linux-dvb] Re: tzap (apps-1.1.0) modification

2004-03-03 Thread bmh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My quick hack to tzap.c (from linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/util/szap/tzap.c) is available from http://www.arkady.demon.co.uk/tzap.c.gz I'm sorry I still had no time to test your tzap patch. One thing I would like to have changed is: Drop -o,

[linux-dvb] Re: Preparation for 1.1.1 release: Testers wanted

2004-03-03 Thread Manuel Hartl
hi the latest dvb_frontend changes. is this just the same as in 2.6.4-rc1? No. Especially frontend stuff is different. because that gives the same problem as 2.6.3 (oopses after a while) Your Oops is not reproducable on any system I have access to (if it's still the same you posted

[linux-dvb] Re: Frontend experimental patch v1

2004-03-03 Thread Andrew de Quincey
the ves1x93 driver do FE_RESET (aka ves1x93_clr_bit) also at the end of ves1x93_set_symbolrate (after tuning), so i think we should remove this also. Or need this tuner clr_bit twice? Are you able to test to see if it can work without it? I don't have one of these tuners to find out myself

[linux-dvb] Re: Holding tuned frequency after szap!

2004-03-03 Thread Andrew de Quincey
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 17:06, Kelvin Woods wrote: Hi, I'm sure I've read (on this list I believe) that after you tune your DVB card with szap the card will lose the frequency after a few seconds. This indeed is easily observable. If you don't keep szap running the card loses the

[linux-dvb] Re: Frontend experimental patch v1

2004-03-03 Thread Andreas Share
the ves1x93 driver do FE_RESET (aka ves1x93_clr_bit) also at the end of ves1x93_set_symbolrate (after tuning), so i think we should remove this also. Or need this tuner clr_bit twice? Are you able to test to see if it can work without it? I don't have one of these tuners to find out

[linux-dvb] Re: Holding tuned frequency after szap!

2004-03-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Andrew de Quincey wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 17:06, Kelvin Woods wrote: I'm sure I've read (on this list I believe) that after you tune your DVB card with szap the card will lose the frequency after a few seconds. This indeed is easily observable. If you don't keep szap running the

[linux-dvb] Re: Holding tuned frequency after szap!

2004-03-03 Thread Kelvin Woods
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:40:11PM +, Andrew de Quincey wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 17:06, Kelvin Woods wrote: Hi, I'm sure I've read (on this list I believe) that after you tune your DVB card with szap the card will lose the frequency after a few seconds. This indeed is

[linux-dvb] Re: Preparation for 1.1.1 release: Testers wanted

2004-03-03 Thread Georg Golombek
Am Mittwoch, 3. März 2004 17:06 schrieb Johannes Stezenbach: Hi all, I've tagged the files for the linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1 release in CVS. It would be nice if some of you could find the time to check if the drivers build and work fine, especially with the latest dvb_frontend changes. If nothing

[linux-dvb] Re: Preparation for 1.1.1 release: Testers wanted

2004-03-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Manuel Hartl wrote: Mar 2 21:53:30 media kernel: insmod: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x20 ... Mar 2 21:53:30 media kernel: saa7146_vv: saa7146_vv_init(): out of memory. aborting. Mar 2 21:53:30 media kernel: dvb_ttpci: av7110_init_v4l(): cannot init capture device. skMar 2

[linux-dvb] Re: Frontend experimental patch v1

2004-03-03 Thread Andrew de Quincey
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 20:32, Andreas Share wrote: the ves1x93 driver do FE_RESET (aka ves1x93_clr_bit) also at the end of ves1x93_set_symbolrate (after tuning), so i think we should remove this also. Or need this tuner clr_bit twice? Are you able to test to see if it can work

[linux-dvb] Re: Holding tuned frequency after szap!

2004-03-03 Thread Andrew de Quincey
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 21:42, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Andrew de Quincey wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 17:06, Kelvin Woods wrote: I'm sure I've read (on this list I believe) that after you tune your DVB card with szap the card will lose the frequency after a few seconds. This

[linux-dvb] Re: Frontend experimental patch v1

2004-03-03 Thread Andrew de Quincey
i have tested this last week, only one clr_bit is needed after tuning. So, if you FE_RESET after tuning in the core frontend stuff with FE_POLL (if i have understand this correct), there is no need for doing this after setting the symbolrate. Or, possilbe the better way, we don´t do a RESET

[linux-dvb] DVB on mips/cobalt

2004-03-03 Thread Kieran Fulke
hi folks, thought some of you might be interested to hear i have a wintv nova-t pci card running inside a cobalt qube2. (mips cpu, UK dvb-t) works nicely, and no problems at all. so i guess you can add MIPS to the list of working targets. regards Kieran. qube misc # uname -a file

[linux-dvb] Re: Preparation for 1.1.1 release: Testers wanted

2004-03-03 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Torbjörn Jansson wrote: I just tried 1.1.1 and I get compile errors unless I change the symlink build-2.4/include/linux/videodev2.h to point to ../../videodev2.h The link was pointing to /lib/modules/2.4.24/build/include/linux/videodev2.h I get the errors in videobuf.c line 495

[linux-dvb] Re: Frontend experimental patch v1

2004-03-03 Thread Andreas Oberritter
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 00:08, Andrew de Quincey wrote: i have tested this last week, only one clr_bit is needed after tuning. So, if you FE_RESET after tuning in the core frontend stuff with FE_POLL (if i have understand this correct), there is no need for doing this after setting the

[linux-dvb] Re: Frontend experimental patch v1

2004-03-03 Thread Andreas Oberritter
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 00:08, Andrew de Quincey wrote: i have tested this last week, only one clr_bit is needed after tuning. So, if you FE_RESET after tuning in the core frontend stuff with FE_POLL (if i have understand this correct), there is no need for doing this after setting the

[linux-dvb] Help with USA DVB config - please!

2004-03-03 Thread Greg Herlein
I'm a DVB newbie and could use a bit of help please! I have a NOVA-T card. I am using kernel 2.6.1 and the budget drivers compile and load clean. I have this dish/lnbf: http://www.skyvision.com/store/mi1500075.html Initially I configured a set top box to use the dish and hopefully find the

[linux-dvb] Re: Help with USA DVB config - please!

2004-03-03 Thread Jeremy Hall
You definitely want 10750. But will it work with a DVB-T card? _J In the new year, Greg Herlein wrote: I'm a DVB newbie and could use a bit of help please! I have a NOVA-T card. I am using kernel 2.6.1 and the budget drivers compile and load clean. I have this dish/lnbf: