[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
Mon Dec 20 20:37:53 UTC 2004


Mark Anderson wrote:

>On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:07 am, Örjan wrote:
>  
>
>>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
>>    
>>
>
>I have never tried piping the output from the dvb device straight into mplayer 
>but is suspect it will not work. Try using dvbstream and pipe it's output to 
>mplayer, this works for me:
>
>dvbstream -o -ps -qam 64 512 650 1590 | mplayer -
>
>you will of course need to substitute the appropriate pids for you station 
>(use scan -c to get the list of available pids)
>
>Cheers,
>Mark
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>
Tried the tips regarding dvbstream instead of czap, however the problem 
remains. mplayer reports playing from stdin and still nothing happens. 
Tried to get udev to create my devices (even patched up udev from fedora 
that should fix the dvb-problem). However, no matter how much i try i 
can not get udev to create the devices properly. I've tried different 
solutions but reading through posts from others I've created:
/etc/udev/scripts/dvb.sh
edited /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions (added dvb section)
edited /etc/udev/rules.d/dvb.rules (and tried renaming it to 06-dvb.rules)
no errors in /var/log/messages
no devices ;(

now I'm in the dark and I do not know enough about linux to find more 
errors. All HW reports  OK (except for this message in log:
videodev: "av7110" has no release callback. Please fix your driver for 
proper sysfs support, see http://lwn.net/Articles/36850/) I expect this 
to be one of the reasons why udev won't create the devices.

As of now scan works. czap outputs some sort of data on 
/dev/dvb/adapter0/vdr0 but I do not know enough linux to check the 
format of the stream.

Anyone had a similar problem? I'm very grateful for all support I've 
gotten so far.

br,
Örjan



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