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

Wilfred van den Assem c.assemvanhaaften at chello.nl
Thu Jan 1 22:25:24 UTC 2009


Happy New Year!

Try this:

mplayer dvb://"NRK1 Nordland"



Op donderdag 01-01-2009 om 22:19 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Helge
Fredriksen:

> 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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