[mythtv-users] Can I use a Ceton InfiniTV device on a Windows 7 box?

David Engel david at istwok.net
Wed Jan 9 23:43:39 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 05:13:12PM -0600, Frank Feuerbacher wrote:
> Continuing saga of trying to use InfiniTV card installed on Windows
> from an Ubuntu 12.10 box....
> 
> On 1/7/2013 2:51 PM, Kris Jensen wrote:
> ><snip>
> >
> >Yes bridging works well. I have two Ceton cards. One card set
> >local only and one in bridged mode that I use with testing on
> >WinOS DVR apps over the network. It took me a month or two of
> >reading and trial and error before my MythTV system was stable
> >enough to be called functional. And it has remained this way for
> >the passed 10+ months. I had fun learning every step of the way.
> >
> >The only tips that I think that would help are:
> >
> >You NEED your signal strength a SNR at acceptable levels to avoid
> >recording and live TV errors. All thought MythTV handles signal
> >errors very well.
> >
> >When bridging the Ceton card you need to slow down and or
> >rearrange the boot process a bit to allow the card to obtain an IP
> >address before MythTVbackend starts.
> >
> >Hope that's helpful.
> >
> >
> >
> I successfully bridged my InfiniTV card with a static IP.
> I can use mplayer on Ubuntu to play from an rtsp URL for the
> InfiniTV. Great, Basic communication works.
> I used setup-mythtv to define the capture card as a Ceton InfiniTV
> and with the static IP address I used with mplayer and with viewing
> the card status in a browser. But, alas, mythtv does not appear to
> work with it. It fails during the back-end startup.
> 
> Should I have defined the device as a Ceton InfiniTV card to mythTV?
> Perhaps it assumes it is a local card and does not use the correct
> protocol to communicate with it? Also, does anyone know where the
> remote protocol is defined? I have seen snippets about what URL to
> use to change channels, to view a channel, etc. but I have not seen
> a complete list. Perhaps it is a standard?
> 
> I'm hoping to understand this well enough to be able to improve on
> the wiki for the InfiniTV.

Did you set the "Card number" to "RTP"?  If that's not done, I believe
mythtv tries to use the /dev entries for some operations.

David
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