[mythtv-users] Help getting KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T to work

mike choy mike at acaciaclose.co.uk
Fri Dec 30 17:35:00 EST 2005


Joacim J wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope you all had a very nice christmas.
>
> Have anybody a clue regarding my question below?
>
> Best Regards
> Joacim J
>
>
> On 12/27/05, Joacim J <jocke4news at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I never get udev to set the permissions correctly. Now I have the
>> following in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>>
>> # START DVB-T card
>> /sbin/modprobe --remove cx88_blackbird
>> /sbin/modprobe cx88_dvb
>>
>> sleep 5
>> chmod o+rw /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0
>> chmod o+rw /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
>> chmod o+rw /dev/dvb/adapter0/net0
>> chmod o+rw /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
>> ## END DVB-T
>>
>> It seems to work fine but I would have been more satisfied without that "hack".
>>
>> To the following issue... I have managed to scan the channels and
>> created a channels.config and have inserted the data in 'dvb_channel'
>> and 'dvb_pids' which I think is correct. I had to made it the hard way
>> since the mythtv scanning finds the channels but doesn't insert them
>> in the tables.
>>
>> When starting mythbackend I get this in the console:
>>
>> [root at HTPC ~]# mythbackend
>> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.524 New DB connection, total: 1
>> Starting up as the master server.
>> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.534 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server
>> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.535 New DB connection, total: 2
>> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.538 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started
>> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.567 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend Zarlink
>> MT352 DVB-T.
>> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.569 New DB connection, total: 3
>> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.570 DVB#0 ERROR - Could not find dvb tuning
>> parameters for transport 0
>> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.570 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options
>> for channel 19.
>> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.575 New DB scheduler connection
>>
>> and when start "Watch TV" I get:
>>
>> 2005-12-27 23:22:30.982 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>> 2005-12-27 23:22:31.023 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully
>> (using PS mode).
>> 2005-12-27 23:22:31.024 DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your
>> channel setup.
>> 2005-12-27 23:22:32.043 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
>> 2005-12-27 23:22:33.047 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
>> 2005-12-27 23:22:34.051 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
>>
>> I have inserted the information as:
>> # SVT1:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:1019:1018:1010
>> INSERT INTO `dvb_channel` VALUES (19, 1010, NULL, NULL, NULL,
>> 626000000, 'a', NULL, '2/3', NULL, NULL, 'qam_64', '8', '1/2', '8',
>> '1/8', 'n', NULL);
>> INSERT INTO `dvb_pids`          VALUES (19, 1019, 'v', '');
>> INSERT INTO `dvb_pids`          VALUES (19, 1018, 'a', '');
>>
>> What can be wrong?
>>
>> PS. I can watch the channels using XINE and channel.conf. DS
>> --
>> Regards
>> Joacim
>>
>>     
>
>
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> Joacim
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Joacim
what distro and kernel are you using, latest 2.6.13 kernels should have 
full support for this card
I am using this under suse 10.0 and the system just picks it up.
Mythtv (0.18) just finds it and I can do a scan, but you need to put a 
starting frequency into the the frequency table
the first time you scan.

Mike C



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