[mythtv] dvb-s scanning with svn #8406

John Pullan john.pullan at gmail.com
Thu Dec 29 13:09:00 EST 2005


On 29/12/05, Simon Kenyon <simon at koala.ie> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 29 December 2005 16:10, John Pullan wrote:
> > On 29/12/05, Simon Kenyon <simon at koala.ie> wrote:
> > >  Just tried to use my nexus-s after a long gap
> > > I added the card in mythtv-setup and then went to the scan channels
> page.
> > > It will not let me select the dvb-s card. It only shows my two
> pvr-x50's,
> > > so when it scans
> > > It does so on the wrong card. The dropdown will not let me select my
> > > dvb-s card.
>
> > You've setup an appropriate videosouce and cardinput ?
>
> just checked to be sure :-)
>
> it will not let me select the correct cardinput
> it will only give me /dev/v4l/video0 or /dev/v4l/video1 as options
> but if you look at the output from ivtv-detect:
>
> driver:   ivtv-0.4.0 (tagged release)
> card:     WinTV PVR 350, bus info 0000:00:0c.0, ivtv card #0
> hardware: saa7115 saa7127 msp34xx tveeprom
>      /dev/v4l/video0: MPG encoding (links: /dev/video0)
>      /dev/v4l/radio0: Radio
>        /dev/v4l/vbi0: VBI encoding (links: /dev/vbi0)
>        /dev/v4l/vbi4: VBI from MPG (links: /dev/vbi4)
>        /dev/v4l/vbi8: VBI decoding (links: /dev/vbi8)
>     /dev/v4l/video16: MPG decoding (links: /dev/video16)
>     /dev/v4l/video24: PCM encoding (links: /dev/video24)
>     /dev/v4l/video32: YUV encoding (links: /dev/video32)
>     /dev/v4l/video48: YUV decoding (links: /dev/video48)
>
> driver:   ivtv-0.4.0 (tagged release)
> card:     WinTV PVR 350, bus info 0000:00:0f.0, ivtv card #1
> hardware: saa7115 saa7127 msp34xx tveeprom
>      /dev/v4l/video1: MPG encoding (links: /dev/video1)
>      /dev/v4l/radio1: Radio
>        /dev/v4l/vbi1: VBI encoding (links: /dev/vbi1)
>        /dev/v4l/vbi5: VBI from MPG (links: /dev/vbi5)
>        /dev/v4l/vbi9: VBI decoding (links: /dev/vbi9)
>     /dev/v4l/video17: MPG decoding (links: /dev/video17)
>     /dev/v4l/video25: PCM encoding (links: /dev/video25)
>     /dev/v4l/video33: YUV encoding (links: /dev/video33)
>     /dev/v4l/video49: YUV decoding (links: /dev/video49)
>
> driver:   v4l
> card:     Logitech QuickCam Orbit
>      /dev/v4l/video2: YUV encoding (links: /dev/video2)
>
> driver:   saa7146 v4l2-0.5.0
> card:     dvb, bus info PCI:0000:00:0d.0
>      /dev/v4l/video3: YUV encoding (links: /dev/video3)
>
> you will see that my dvb card is /dev/v4l/video3
>
> this is on a gentoo system with 2.6.14-gentoo-r4
>
> regards
>
> But surely you want the card to be a dvb card and not a v4l one ? (I'm not
saying that v4l won't work outside of mythtv, but inside it needs to be of
type dvb for the scan to work)

Regards
--
John
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