[mythtv-users] Trying to get a TV signal into myth-tv using Haupauge Nova-T 500

Helge Fredriksen helgeingvart at gmail.com
Thu Jan 1 21:23:56 UTC 2009


Ups, forgot that file...

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Helge Fredriksen <helgeingvart at gmail.com>wrote:

> Happy new year!
>
> Since I didn't get much answer from you on my last reports, I tried to
> start from scratch.
> Installed Mythbuntu 8.10 and started out with blank sheets...
>
> Got rid of the error statements from the backend, and are managing to get
> into a viewer up and
> running now when attempting to watch TV.
>
> Signal is 48% on my DVB-T channels in Norway, but there is no lock which
> the viewer also
> warns me about.
>
> Could this have anything to do with the the mpeg4 encoding of the TV signal
> here in Norway?
>
> Attaching the channels.conf file I used for setting up the channels in the
> channel editor. I got this
> from "scan scan.freq > channels.conf" (dvbutils package), where scan.freq
> contained these entries:
>
> T 706000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE
> T 650000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE
> T 786000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE
>
> As stated earlier, I'm getting a nice signal using "vlc channels.conf", but
> I'm having trouble
> getting mplayer dvb://102 understand what the heck I'm meaning...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Best regards,
> Helge Fredriksen
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Helge Fredriksen <helgeingvart at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 28/12/2008, Helge Fredriksen <helgeingvart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > However, I'm getting no signal whatsoever when I'm trying to watch TV
>>> in the
>>> > frontend. It just flickers a bit and returns me to the frontpage of the
>>> > program when I select this option. It doesn't give me any error
>>> messages on
>>> > the console either when running it in the foreground.
>>>
>>> Are you able to receive EIT programme listings, or record successfully?
>>
>>
>> No, I don't have any program listing under any of the channels I chose
>> "Combine data from several other grabbers" in the Listings grabber in the
>> setup of
>> video sources. Chose this option, since there was no specific entry for
>> Norway.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> It _could_ be a playback problem, rather than a tuning problem, so
>>> during testing choose the CPU- or Slim playback profile in
>>> mythfrontend's TV Playback settings..
>>
>>
>> Was set to CPU+ per default, tried to change to Slim and CPU--, but no
>> change.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The mythbackend user has to have access to the /dev/dvb* devices. Many
>>> users run the mythbackend daemon as root, and mythfrontend as their
>>> regular user.
>>
>>
>> Tried to run the backend server as root, since the /dev/dvb* was owned by
>> root, but
>> allowed read/execute access though to the adapter0 and adapter1 for
>> group/other.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If you open 2 consoles and run mythbackend in one, and mythfrontend in
>>> the other (or redirect logging from both to two log files), you will
>>> be able see the log ouput from both during a LiveTV session.
>>
>>
>> Ok, that brought forward a bit info:
>>
>> root at ultimate:/home/helge# /usr/bin/mythbackend --pidfile
>> /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.775 Using runtime prefix = /usr
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.776 Empty LocalHostName.
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.776 Using localhost value of ultimate
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.780 New DB connection, total: 1
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.784 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>> localhost
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.784 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.784 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>> localhost
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.785 New DB connection, total: 2
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.786 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>> localhost
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.787 Current Schema Version: 1214
>> Starting up as the master server.
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.792 TVRec(1) Error: Problem finding starting channel,
>> setting to default of '3'.
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.934 ChannelBase(1) Error: InitializeInputs():
>>             Could not get inputs for the capturecard.
>>             Perhaps you have forgotten to bind video
>>             sources to your card's inputs?
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.935 TVRec(2) Error: Problem finding starting channel,
>> setting to default of '3'.
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.935 DVBChan(2:1) Error: Opening DVB frontend device
>> failed.
>>             eno: Device or resource busy (16)
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.935 TVRec(3) Error: Problem finding starting channel,
>> setting to default of '3'.
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.935 DVBChan(3:1) Error: Opening DVB frontend device
>> failed.
>>             eno: Device or resource busy (16)
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.936 New DB scheduler connection
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.936 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>> localhost
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.939 New DB connection, total: 3
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.939 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>> localhost
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.945 MediaServer:: Loopback address specified -
>> 127.0.0.1. Disabling UPnP
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.945 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.945 mythbackend version: 0.21.20080304-1
>> www.mythtv.org
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.945 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:19.946 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space:
>> 1.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:22.938 Reschedule requested for id -1.
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:22.948 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.00 match + 0.01 place
>> 2008-12-29 15:30:22.950 Seem to be woken up by USER
>> 2008-12-29 15:31:39.939 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space:
>> 1.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
>>
>> Seems like there's a problem with bindings between video sources to card
>> input, even though I have connected them in the
>> setup. Also, it's complaining about default channel, which I also ensured
>> was a valid unencrypted channel.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Helge Fredriksen
>>
>
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