[linux-dvb] Re: DVB-s Card - no picture

[Niklas Peinecke <peinecke@gdv.uni-hannover.de>]

Benedikt wrote:
> Hi folks,
> After searching in the list, I couldn't find a thread matching my problem, so I am going to ask you.
> I just bought a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-s Card with a budget saa7146 chip.
> And I use it in a system consisting of:
>  Athlon Barton XP 2500+ Processor, 
>  Asus A7N8X-X Mainboard,
>  NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 from Asus
>  Creative SoundBlaster Live!
>
> Because of the new Hardware I use the kernel 2.6.0-test9 on a debian system.
> In the kernel configuration I chose the kernel modules for v4l and dvb support.
> The dvb-utils and libs I downloaded with apt-get and after some tests I could load the dvb modules and run szab. According to some sites and to szap the card uses the devices in /dev/dvb/adapter0/.
> And here my problem begins. When I start szap with szap -n channelnumber, I get an output which seems to be ok: 
>  szap -n 003
>  reading channels from file '/home/blackmessage/.szap/channels.conf'
>  zapping to '3sat':
>  sat 0, frequency = 11954 MHz H, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x00d2, apid = 0x00dc
>  using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
>  status 1f | signal aa19 | snr c68d | ber 00007000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
>  status 1f | signal ab3b | snr c6bd | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
>
> So far, so good. But now when I try to start tvtime pointing to the device /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 I get no picture. The same result I get with mplayer - < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 (mplayer message is: "... Playing - Reading from stdin..." Then it hangs) 
> I also tried xawtv which crashes with a seg fault and xine, which brings a similar result as mplayer.
> If I am right /dev/video0 isn't the right device for dvb-s cards, if I it should run, it doesn't.
>
> In conclusion it seems to me that the dvb card is working and able to play but I can't play any channels with a play back application.
> I hope anybody can tell me what else I can do...
Try

szap -r -n 003

instead.

Niklas



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