Re: [linux-dvb] cx88-dvb driver bug: unable to lock on some lower frequencies which have unencrypted channels

2007-02-18 Thread Matthew Schultz
I was talking to Michael Krufky the other day on the v4l irc channel and he mentioned a major problem when he got his first tuner card. He said his apartment building was split so many times that the signal he was receiving was really weak. He could only receive fox. He mentioned that he got a

Re: [linux-dvb] dvb_usb_dib0700 based devices and random usb disconnects

2007-02-18 Thread Matt Doran
Arnold Schulz wrote: Looks like the problem of Nova-T-500, which also uses dib0700 !?! There have been several posts in this list, eg: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-February/015716.html Yes, that's looks like the same problem. We haven't got a solution, however we've fou

[linux-dvb] qam 256 doesn't work with TT 2300-C (Technotrend)

2007-02-18 Thread Markus Frahm
Hello, I get 64qam as well as qam256 channels from my provider (willy-tel,Hamburg Germany). The qam 256 channels work well under windows with the same cable, so I think it should be a driver problem, pehaps in stv0297.c?The quality of video and sound with 256qam is very poor. If it wouldn't work

Re: [linux-dvb] cx88-dvb driver bug: unable to lock on some lower frequencies which have unencrypted channels

2007-02-18 Thread Matthew T . Russotto
Unfortunately, I don't think that's a driver bug but a hardware limitation. My PCHDTV 5500 card seems to be less sensitive to signal or more sensitive to interference on CATV 76 and 77 (537 and 543 Mhz). I was able to fix my problem by replacing a set of two-way splitters with a higher-qualit

Re: [linux-dvb] Problem with local hg trees

2007-02-18 Thread Trent Piepho
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, e9hack wrote: > > e9hack wrote: > >>> > >> No, I don't use the hg commit command. I think it makes no sense, > >> because I've read only access. The differences between the two > >> directories have nothing to do withe my reverted changes in one of the > >> directories. > >> >

Re: [linux-dvb] DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital rev 1.4

2007-02-18 Thread tim belina
'morning all, Yes, I have RTFM (and wiki :-) but I cannot find a definite list of modules that must be loaded in order to run the DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital rev 1.4 card. My machine was hanging on occasion (adding to my card installation fun :-) so I decided to reinstall. YaST can see

Re: [linux-dvb] 2.6.20 no devices in /dev

2007-02-18 Thread Matthew Schultz
Did you try modprobe cx88-dvb? Also check to make sure your kernel is compiled with Automatic kernel module loading so that you don't have to load the driver manually. Matt On 2/18/07, Pino Gargiulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! This weekend I upgraded to 2.6.20. My tuning board is fou

Re: [linux-dvb] Problem getting Compro DVB-T300 to work

2007-02-18 Thread Hartmut Hackmann
Hi, micah schrieb: > Hello everyone > I am having some trouble getting a dvb card working in linux and am > posting here as a last resort to try and get it working :-) > > The card is a Compro VideoMate DVB-T300 > > > lspci -v > > 02:06.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134/S

Re: [linux-dvb] Problem with local hg trees

2007-02-18 Thread e9hack
Oliver Endriss wrote: > e9hack wrote: > >> Manu Abraham wrote: >> >>> On 2/18/07, e9hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi, some time ago, I've created two local copies of the v4l-dvb repository. The command was "hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb";. I've

[linux-dvb] 2.6.20 no devices in /dev

2007-02-18 Thread Pino Gargiulo
Hello! This weekend I upgraded to 2.6.20. My tuning board is found CORE cx88[0]: subsystem: 0070:9002, board: Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T [card=18,autodetected] but nothing appears in /dev/dvb. From what I understand the device inodes are created by udevd that gets info from /sys/class/dvb but t

[linux-dvb] upgraded 2.6.18.1 -> 2.6.20, Technotrend DVB-C 1500 not locking to some channels

2007-02-18 Thread Kari Salmela
Hello all, I tried to upgrade kernel to 2.6.20 just to notice that one multiplex on our local "Welho" cable (138 Mhz, QAM128, 6.9msym/s). With 2.6.18.1 it works just fine: mythtv:/home/mythtv# czap -a 1 -c ~mythtv/.czap/channels.conf "Discovery" using '/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0' and '/dev/d

Re: [linux-dvb] How does bad reception influence quality of macroblocks?

2007-02-18 Thread Richard Scobie
Luca Olivetti wrote: These values are useless anyway: no driver (or at least none of the one I looked at to write my own) complies with the specification of the api, so the magnitudes aren't comparable between one card and the other. In I disagree with "useless". Certainly the absolute valu

Re: [linux-dvb] Problem with local hg trees

2007-02-18 Thread Oliver Endriss
e9hack wrote: > Manu Abraham wrote: > > On 2/18/07, e9hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> some time ago, I've created two local copies of the v4l-dvb > >> repository. The command was "hg clone > >> http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb";. I've done many changes in one > >> directory. From ti

[linux-dvb] Has someone included http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/multiproto in another repo ?

2007-02-18 Thread Gregoire Favre
Hello :-) Thank to the tip on #v4l I try to include the info for the HVR-4000 into another repo. I have installed kdiff3 but I still found it hard. I tried this : hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb cd v4l-dvb hg pull http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/multiproto hg merge but it's too hard at hg m

[linux-dvb] Re: RFC 0.3: MPEG encoding and decoding V4L2/DVB API additions

2007-02-18 Thread Hans Verkuil
On Sunday 18 February 2007 17:54, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > 6) Scaling and positioning of the video > > > > The cx23415 can take the MPEG stream and scale it to an arbitrary > > width and height and position it at anywhere in the TV-out screen. > > So you can get effects like having the MPEG

[linux-dvb] Re: RFC 0.3: MPEG encoding and decoding V4L2/DVB API additions

2007-02-18 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> 6) Scaling and positioning of the video > > The cx23415 can take the MPEG stream and scale it to an arbitrary width > and height and position it at anywhere in the TV-out screen. So you can > get effects like having the MPEG output to the top left corner and an > OSD in the lower right corne

Re: [linux-dvb] how can this work, what can I do?

2007-02-18 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/18/07, Udo van den Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Manu Abraham wrote: > On 2/18/07, Udo van den Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How does the Device Number scheme works w.r.t. influencing what >> interrupt goes where? Can I find out what inerrupt my DVB-cards are >> really connected

[linux-dvb] RFC 0.3: MPEG encoding and decoding V4L2/DVB API additions

2007-02-18 Thread Hans Verkuil
RFC MPEG encoding and decoding V4L2/DVB API additions Version 0.3 (This third revision incorporates the comments and suggestions that resulted from discussing this RFC with Ralph Metzler. This should be pretty much the final version. I hope.) This RFC adds new functionality to the V4L2/DVB API

re: [linux-dvb] Please see if you can help: Twinhan VP 1025 DVB-S PCI Card

2007-02-18 Thread Tim Hewett
(original post: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2006- August/012188.html) Dave, I had the exact same problem. First the card would be recognised but wouldn't appear in /dev/dvb (solved by following/adapting instructions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1777028), t

Re: [linux-dvb] Problem with local hg trees

2007-02-18 Thread e9hack
Manu Abraham wrote: > On 2/18/07, e9hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> some time ago, I've created two local copies of the v4l-dvb >> repository. The command was "hg clone >> http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb";. I've done many changes in one >> directory. From time to time, I've reverted all

Re: [linux-dvb] dvb_usb_dib0700 based devices and random usb disconnects

2007-02-18 Thread Arnold Schulz
Looks like the problem of Nova-T-500, which also uses dib0700 !?! There have been several posts in this list, eg: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-February/015716.html ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.

[linux-dvb] Re: RFC: MPEG encoding and decoding V4L2/DVB API additions

2007-02-18 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Dom, 2007-02-18 às 14:03 +0100, Hans Verkuil escreveu: > RFC MPEG encoding and decoding V4L2/DVB API additions > Version 0.2 > > (The latest version of this RFC can be found here as well: > http://ivtvdriver.org/viewcvs/ivtv/trunk/doc/) > > This RFC adds new functionality to the V4L2/DVB API i

Re: [linux-dvb] how can this work, what can I do?

2007-02-18 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Manu Abraham wrote: > On 2/18/07, Udo van den Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How does the Device Number scheme works w.r.t. influencing what >> interrupt goes where? Can I find out what inerrupt my DVB-cards are >> really connected to (instead of what the kernel thinks)? > > Currently the

Re: [linux-dvb] Problem with local hg trees

2007-02-18 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/18/07, e9hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, some time ago, I've created two local copies of the v4l-dvb repository. The command was "hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb";. I've done many changes in one directory. From time to time, I've reverted all changes with "hg revert" and I've u

Re: [linux-dvb] how can this work, what can I do?

2007-02-18 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/18/07, Udo van den Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How does the Device Number scheme works w.r.t. influencing what interrupt goes where? Can I find out what inerrupt my DVB-cards are really connected to (instead of what the kernel thinks)? Currently the DVB subsystem *just* handles IRQ

[linux-dvb] Problem with local hg trees

2007-02-18 Thread e9hack
Hi, some time ago, I've created two local copies of the v4l-dvb repository. The command was "hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb";. I've done many changes in one directory. From time to time, I've reverted all changes with "hg revert" and I've updated the tree with "hg pull -u". If I run "hg

[linux-dvb] RFC: MPEG encoding and decoding V4L2/DVB API additions

2007-02-18 Thread Hans Verkuil
RFC MPEG encoding and decoding V4L2/DVB API additions Version 0.2 (The latest version of this RFC can be found here as well: http://ivtvdriver.org/viewcvs/ivtv/trunk/doc/) This RFC adds new functionality to the V4L2/DVB API in order to properly support MPEG hardware encoders and decoders. This i

Re: [linux-dvb] How does bad reception influence quality of macroblocks?

2007-02-18 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Richard Scobie ha escrit: status 03 | signal 8675 | snr | ber 001f | unc | status 1f | signal 8435 | snr | ber | unc 0013 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 8455 | snr | ber | unc | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 844e | snr |

[linux-dvb] how can this work, what can I do?

2007-02-18 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Hello, I have a VIA Epia EN12000 board, a dual riser card and Terratec 1200 DVB-S and DVB-T cards. The EN12000 is equipped with a PCI riser like the one here: http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/acatalog/info%5f2%2ehtml Please also see http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/acatalog/PCI_Risers.html and htt

[linux-dvb] dvb_usb_dib0700 based devices and random usb disconnects

2007-02-18 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Dear all, I am getting random disconnects with a hama and a wintv-nova-t usb dongle. I've tried w/ and w/o preemtion on (non)smp machines and it is all the same. I guess something is badly wrong in the device's firmware (or the linux driver crashing the firmware somehow). I've filed this as a bug

[linux-dvb] Why is telitext not complete although BER is 0

2007-02-18 Thread lynx . abraxas
On 16/02/07 19:54:45, Richard Scobie wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >This is very valuable to know. Sadly I couldn't find any info on this in > >the > >net. > >What would You recon is ment with "signal strength" and "signal quality" > >in > >the M$ windows dvb-t programme?