[mythtv-users] Off topic: Last resort for me. Can not get my dvb-c card to output video/audio on FC3, kernel 2.6.9-681

Örjan orjan at laxfiske.se
Sun Dec 19 21:07:58 UTC 2004


Hi !
I want to build a digital multimedia system for my home based on mythtv
with a client/server architecture.  Since i get my tv by cable (digital)
i have to use a (at least one) dvb card.

Been having some serious trouble in getting my dvb-card to work under
Fedora Core 3. Here is my setup:
Fedora Core 3, Kernel: 2.6.9-681_FC3
Hauppauge DVB-c premium card,CI and CAM (Hauppauge/Conax)
Using dvb drivers in kernel. udev/sysfs doesn't make devices so i use
the MAKEDEV-DVB.sh script from Linuxtv.
(btw. card works fine under windows)

lsmod gives:
Module                  Size  Used by
ves1820                11213  1
dvb_ttpci              74741  3
dvb_core               80873  5 ves1820,dvb_ttpci
saa7146_vv             47425  1 dvb_ttpci
video_buf              24261  1 saa7146_vv
saa7146                21613  2 dvb_ttpci,saa7146_vv
v4l1_compat            15941  1 saa7146_vv
v4l2_common             9921  1 saa7146_vv
videodev               13377  1 saa7146_vv
ttpci_eeprom            6465  1 dvb_ttpci

lspci gives:
02:03.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)

dmesg output:
DVB: registering new adapter (Technotrend/Hauppauge PCI rev2.1).
DVB: AV7111(0) - firm f0240009, rtsl b0250018, vid 71010068, app 8000261c
DVB: AV7111(0) - firmware supports CI link layer interface
DVB: VES1820(0): setup for tuner sp5659c
DVB: VES1820(0): pwm=0x00
DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (VES1820 based DVB-C frontend)...

using dvb-apps/util/scan give me a channels.conf (i find almost every
channel...read somewhere that i should check some timeouts to get a
better scan result)

using same channels.conf as input for czap and i get:
[mythtv at localhost szap]$ ./czap -c channels.conf RTL -r
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
23 RTL:274000000:INVERSION_AUTO:6875000:FEC_AUTO:QAM_64:1100:1101:207
23 RTL: f 274000000, s 6875000, i 2, fec 9, qam 3, v 0x44c, a 0x44d
status 1f | signal b0b0 | snr efef | ber 009ffff6 | unc ffffffff |
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal ffff | snr f0f0 | ber 009ffff6 | unc 00000000 |
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal ffff | snr efef | ber 009ffff6 | unc 00000000 |
FE_HAS_LOCK

(status tells me i got good signal, little noise and that there is data
on vdr0, trying to just do cat /dev/dvb/..../vdr0 gives output)

then i try to view the stream in mplayer and nothing happens...see below.

i've also tried xine and did not get a picture there either.
[mythtv]$ mplayer - < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
MPlayer 1.0pre5try2-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster 3402 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 9)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: Filen eller
katalogen finns inte
Reading config file /home/mythtv/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/mythtv/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/home/mythtv/.mplayer/codecs.conf': Filen eller katalogen finns inte
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': Filen eller katalogen finns inte
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
font: can't open file: /home/mythtv/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Åtkomst nekas
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system
startupscripts.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/mythtv/.mplayer/input.conf: Filen
eller katalogen finns inte
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: Filen
eller katalogen finns inte
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing -.
Reading from stdin...
TS file format detected.
DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -1,
PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=1100)...NO AUDIO!  NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 0
Opened TS demuxer, audio: ffffffff(pid -1), video: 10000002(pid
1100)...POS=9036

after about a couple of minutes the following text appears:
MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: video_read_properties

All tips and tricks are highly appreciated. I'm kind of stuck at the
moment and do not know how to move this closer to a solution.

Please help a recently converted M$$ to Linux-noob.

Best regards,
Örjan Nordlund



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