Re: [linux-dvb] Some thoughts and questions

2007-10-08 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi, On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:01:31PM +0200, Felix Domke wrote: [...] > I don't know if broadcasters are required to send non-inverted signals. > I just know (read: remember) that some do. I might be wrong, so second > opinions are welcome. sorry for the delay... Finally I checked again and it

Re: [linux-dvb] RE : RE : linux-dvb and Dektec [was: DVB API update]

2007-10-04 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:30:50AM +0200, Thierry Lelegard wrote: > > > I think there is at least one usage case where one might want to > > have the DekTec card integrated into the linux-dvb driver framework, > > which already has been mentioned: us the existing linux-dvb applications > > with it

Re: [linux-dvb] RE : linux-dvb and Dektec [was: DVB API update]

2007-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi, On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 04:42:20PM +0200, Thierry Lelegard wrote: > IMHO, the Linux DVB framework serves two main purposes: > - Common API for the zillions of DVB-S/C/T adapters > - Common frontend for TV watching programs such as Myth et al. > > Dektec products address the market of professi

Re: [linux-dvb] Some thoughts and questions

2007-09-29 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi, On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 04:18:31PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > > > >> 1) LNB drift > > > > - LNBs have a constant error plus a temperature drift > > (e.g. +/-1MHz error, +/-3Mhz drift for a temperature range > > of -40 ... +60 °C -- cheap no name equipment u

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] tda1004x driver has code to support HIERARCHY_AUTO, but does not set FE_CAN_HIERARCHY_AUTO

2007-09-18 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi, On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:35:31PM +0200, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > > I don't understand your conclusion. sorry, probably my wording was all wrong. > Try this doc > http://www.dvb.org/(RoxenUserID=cc5cd761bc596bbccaf4820a0a017e74)/technology/fact_sheets/WP01_DVB-T%20Hierarchical.pdf > >

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] tda1004x driver has code to support HIERARCHY_AUTO, but does not set FE_CAN_HIERARCHY_AUTO

2007-09-18 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 05:33:43PM +0200, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Wolfgang Wegner wrote: > > > just a stupid question: > > How is a frontend supposed to handle that anyways? > > The demods I know about only have one transport stream output,

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] tda1004x driver has code to support HIERARCHY_AUTO, but does not set FE_CAN_HIERARCHY_AUTO

2007-09-18 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi Patrick, On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:36:33PM +0200, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > Hi Simon, > > And even if they would be hierarchically transmitted, it would not be > possible to receive them: The LinuxTV API as of today is not capable of > selecting either the high-priority stream or the low-p

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-18 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:26:13PM +0200, Georg Acher wrote: > The Reelbox (with the 300MHz) has up to 4 tuners, the NetCeiver can have up > to 6 tuners (max 40Mbyte/s input rate). I did a lot of profiling > (oprofile/gprof) on the Geode, so I think I know what multi demods can "do" > with the syst

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-18 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:17:19PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: > > > > If you would like to fix that in V3, i would much appreciate. If you > > would just like to keep talking only, maybe lets then not talk too much > > about it. > > The recording

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-17 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 06:02:50PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007, Wolfgang Wegner wrote: > > > > - dvb_fe_type: DVB-S2 is missing and I personally would also like > > to see ASI here... > > See my other mail, IMHO we should add the ASI de

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-17 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:38:12PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > > Right. > > Do you think we can generalize it to a DUMMY frontend where some fields > are just queried ? > > If so it would be a matter of just defining a "dummy name" for the > general category of headless devices where some stati

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-17 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 02:57:32PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > CityK wrote: > > Its described in: > > > > "/EN 50083-9:2002 : //Cable networks for television signals, sound > > signals and interactive services. Part 9: Interfaces for CATV/SMATV > > head-ends and similar professional equipment fo

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-16 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi Manu, On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 02:17:55AM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > Please don't remove the CC's. The CC'd people generally don't bother > about mails from the ML, probably. sorry, it was definitely not my intention and I hope to include all previous CC here. [have to read about the multipr

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB API update

2007-09-15 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi, how should this discussion take place? Up to now, my personal experience showed only some drawbacks in the frontend API, and reading the current proposal v4_0.3 I have some comments/questions concerning this part: - dvb_fe_type: DVB-S2 is missing and I personally would also like to see ASI

Re: [linux-dvb] Compiling dvb-usb-adapter module outside the kernel source.

2007-08-01 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:33:05PM +0900, timecop wrote: > Good job deleting the only relevant portion of my post. Sorry it was a bit difficult to see which should have been relevant because every second word was "f***". "P. van Gaans" I do not know what you mean - my clock is set correctly. As

Re: [linux-dvb] Compiling dvb-usb-adapter module outside the kernel source.

2007-08-01 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:01:10PM +0900, timecop wrote: > On 8/1/07, Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > En/na [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: > Stop fucking replying to my mail in foreign language. I don't give a > shit your mail client shows up in greek, have common courtesy not to > injec

Re: [linux-dvb] How to gather "Signal Quality" information from DVB drivers

2007-07-30 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi, On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 03:08:23PM +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote: > En/na Morgan Tørvolt ha escrit: > > > your real problem is not the quality part of this equation really. It > > is the fact that all drivers implement this differently. > > That's not surprising, since the current api specificat

Re: [linux-dvb] How to gather "Signal Quality" information from DVB drivers

2007-07-30 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi Morgan, On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:04:51PM +0200, Morgan T?rvolt wrote: [...] > your real problem is not the quality part of this equation really. It > is the fact that all drivers implement this differently. A level of > 0x2a35 on snr could mean perfect signal on one driver, and no > reception

Re: Re : Re : [linux-dvb] Working DVB-S + CAM question

2007-02-23 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 06:30:03PM -0400, manu wrote: > Le 23.02.2007 10:45:31, Wolfgang Wegner a écrit : [...] > >This depends on the CAM, the CI stack you use and what streams you > >want to decrypt of each programme. > >Alphacrypt and Cryptoworks can at least decrypt two

Re: Re : [linux-dvb] Working DVB-S + CAM question

2007-02-23 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:03:37PM +0100, Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > manu wrote: > >Le 23.02.2007 08:07:44, Nick Tannenberg a écrit : > >>Hi gurus, I've two questions for you. > >> > >>1. Could you point me to a DVB-S hardware supports external CAM > >> modules that is 100% working with Linux. Just t

Re: [linux-dvb] SetTopBox Samsung SMT7020s with onboard conexant cx23880

2007-01-10 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:13:45PM +, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 01:28 +, MichaeL wrote: > > > > how can i add support for this board in the driver. > > Does this set top box have a hard drive? How do you boot linux on it? As far as I can see from the pictures, it has a

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: hdtv scanning

2006-11-06 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:59:46PM +, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 16:45 +0100, Wolfgang Wegner wrote: > > The more difficult part is to synchronize the playback part (audio > > sample > > clock and video clock (frame rate)) to this new system clock - this

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: hdtv scanning

2006-11-06 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 04:07:13PM +0100, Marco Masotti wrote: > > == > > Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:25:05 +0100 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wolfgang Wegner) > > To: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org > > Subject: Re:

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: hdtv scanning

2006-11-06 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:10:48PM +0100, Marco Masotti wrote: > > == > > Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 13:53:27 +0100 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wolfgang Wegner) > > To: Benny Amorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org &

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: hdtv scanning

2006-11-06 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:36:07PM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote: > > "KS" == Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > KS> The whole HDTV thing is of no interest to me until there is a DVB > KS> card that can actually replay HDTV in hardware. > > Why would it have to be the DVB card doi

Re: [linux-dvb] STB6100, STB0899 programming information?

2006-08-29 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:26:06AM +0200, thomas schorpp wrote: > Jason Filos wrote: > >It CAN be, infact STB0899 has 242 registers ... > > registers or adress space? are you sure? AFAIR it has around 150 registers, many of them 16 or 32 Bit in size. > >But there is already a DVB driver for the

[linux-dvb] Re: tda1004x.c and support of future firmware

2004-07-02 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi Andreas, On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 02:00:28PM +0200, Andreas Oberritter wrote: [...] > the (hardcoded) firmware version in tda1004x_check_upload_ok is quite > useless IMHO. I agree with you that a hardcoded comparison is not a good solution. However, especially in case of problems with the driver

[linux-dvb] Re: tda1004x.c and support of future firmware

2004-07-01 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi Robert, On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 01:11:55AM +0200, Robert Schlabbach wrote: > FWIW, all the TechnoTrend DLLs I have seen so far (including the latest > 2.17d one) contained firmware version _0x2C_ for the TDA10045H. Is there sorry, I was mistaken here. I was talking about TDA10046, never had a fr

[linux-dvb] Re: tda1004x.c and support of future firmware

2004-07-01 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi Luke, in case you really want to use a newer firmware (Version 0x26 is the newest I am aware of - unfortunately I do not know if it can be found in any driver yet), you also have to take care of dspVersion in the driver. Regards, Wolfgang

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB signal

2004-06-01 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi, On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:47:31PM +0200, Robert Schlabbach wrote: > From: "Wolfgang Wegner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Furthermore, percentage readings are only one possibility. > The _only_ possibility, I'd say. hmm... :) > > > For comparison, dBµV od

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB signal

2004-06-01 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi Robert, On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:08:00PM +0200, Robert Schlabbach wrote: [...] > To implement percentage readings, you would have to change _all_ frontend > modules and figure out the hardware-specific ranges, and you would probably > need to have all hardware available for analysis to do this

[linux-dvb] TDA10046 - working now?

2004-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi, just wanted to ask if the TDA10046 is working now - in the source code as of linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1 support seems quite reasonable, however the last mailing list entry states it does not work yet. One thing I do not understand: firmware seems to be loaded in chunks, which did _never_ work for me. (

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb card for only 59 Euro!

2002-03-30 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 00:42:29 -0800 To: Wolfgang Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FlexCop Information? Hi! At this point we only support Linux in embedded applications. We plan to have a Linux driver f

[linux-dvb] getting unmodified TS stream?

2001-11-21 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi, sorry for this (maybe) FAQ, but I cannot access the archives at the moment... I studied the dvbapi to find out if I can get the unmodified TS from the frontend, but did not really find an answer. Is there anybody able and willing to give a short answer wether this is possible or not? :) I a