[mythtv-users] BBC HD mux switching to DVBS2

Ken Smith kens at kensnet.org
Mon Jun 6 09:13:23 UTC 2011



Andre wrote:
> On 6 Jun 2011, at 09:37, Ken Smith wrote:
>    
>>>        
>> {snip}
>>      
> You don't say which Hauppauge card you have, there are many!
>    
Thanks Andre, It positive news that you have a dvb-s2 working

lspci says

05:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
     Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Unknown device 6906
     Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 145
     Memory at da000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
     Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
     Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

05:00.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI 
Video and Audio Decoder [Audio Port] (rev 05)
     Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Unknown device 6906
     Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 145
     Memory at db000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
     Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

05:00.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI 
Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
     Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Unknown device 6906
     Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 145
     Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
     Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

05:00.4 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI 
Video and Audio Decoder [IR Port] (rev 05)
     Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Unknown device 6906
     Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 145
     Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
     Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

and the entry from /var/log/messages says

May 29 18:29:09  kernel: cx88/2: cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.7 loaded
May 29 18:29:09  kernel: cx88/2: registering cx8802 driver, type: dvb 
access: shared
May 29 18:29:09  kernel: cx88[0]/2: subsystem: 0070:6906, board: 
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR4000(Lite) DVB-S/S2 [card=69]
May 29 18:29:09  kernel: cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based DVB/ATSC card
May 29 18:29:09  kernel: cx8802_alloc_frontends() allocating 1 frontend(s)
May 29 18:29:09  kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0])
May 29 18:29:09  kernel: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Conexant 
CX24116/CX24118)...

Does yours have anything similar? My machine also has a pair of DVB-T 
cards with the same CX88 chip and a PVR 350. I have a udev rule that 
makes a link for the (supposedly) S2 card to /dev/dvb/adaptor100.

I'll log in to my friends machine and do the same checks later on today.
> {snip}
> Myth has worked with DVBS2 from (I think) 0.22 onwards, maybe even 0.21
>
>    
OK that eliminates Myth version issues.

Thanks

Ken


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