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

Joacim J jocke4news at gmail.com
Sat Dec 31 06:33:45 EST 2005


On 12/30/05, mike choy <mike at acaciaclose.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > 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

Hi,
I am using Fedora Core 4 with kernel 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 and MythTV
0.18.1.20050523-1. I have managed to get the card to work within Xine
but not with MythTV as I said before. Maybe I have got the data in
dvb_channels and dvb_pids wrong and would be greatful if somebody
could take a quick look at the files below.

Here is the output of scan:
http://test.jarkeborn.se/channels.conf

>From that file I created a SQL script that populates the tables
'dvb_channel' and 'dvb_pids'
http://test.jarkeborn.se/populate_dvb_channel_and_dvb_pids.sql

The export of the tables after population looks like:
http://test.jarkeborn.se/dvb_channel.sql
http://test.jarkeborn.se/dvb_pids.sql

I would be very pleased if anyone could take a look at them. If I have
made something strange I think it's quite easy for you experienced DVB
people to see it.

Have a Happy New Years Eve!!
--
Regards
Joacim


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