[mythtv] DVB drivers

[Ed Wildgoose]

>>It is a header, and things are bad if the card never generates one.
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>>Have you tried dumping the stream to disk and then hexdump it 
>>to check 
>>for these codes?  ie tune the card and then cat 
>>/dev/dvb/adaptor0/dvr0 > 
>>somefile and hexdump this file
>>    
>>
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>Hmm, did this (tuned with tzap from one xterm and ran cat /dev/dvb/adaptor0/dvr0 > datafile in another) and get a zero length file - no data.  Frontend stays locked with snr:fefe signal:cece and ber:00000000.
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>However, the card works if I tune the card with tzap and then run dvbstream | mplayer ...
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dvbstream doesnt need tzap to tune the card.  You probably got the 
params to tzap wrong.  I think you need to use "-r" and then let it 
carry on running in a different window?

Ed W