[linux-dvb] Re: Nova-T: help with polling/tuning and compiling libdvb

[Nico <nsabbi@tiscali.it>]

monty_dvb@bc.cx wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Nico wrote:
>
>  
> > You don't need dvbtune, only dvbstream
> > ./dvbstream -f 657833 .... -o 6210 | ts2es 6210 | mpg123 -
> >
> > Change ... with the other tuning parameters, if needed: inversion, bandwidth, modulation, coderate,
> > guard interval and hyerarchy; all of them have default values, but not always they are
> > correct for every transmitter.
> >    
> Thanks for the tip on tuning in the frequency with dvbstream.  That skips
> a step that I was taking!
>
> When using  dvbstream (V 0.4Pre3) (like dvbtune), I can not seam to have
> success tuning into the transponder on the first try.  That is to say when
> I execute:
>
>  
> > dvbstream -f 633833 -o 201 202
> >    
> I get the following error after 10 seconds:
>
> Using DVB card "Philips TDA10045H"
> tuning DVB-T (in United Kingdom) to 657833000 Hz
> polling....
> Getting frontend event
> FE_STATUS: FE_TIMEDOUT
> Not able to lock to the signal on the given frequency
>
> However, if I execute dvbstream twice in a row like:
>
>  
> > dvbstream -f 633833 -o 201 202 ; dvbstream -f 633833 -o 201 202
> >    
> I get the following:
>
> Using DVB card "Philips TDA10045H"
> tuning DVB-T (in United Kingdom) to 657833000 Hz
> polling....
> Getting frontend event
> FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC
> Bit error rate: 3600
> Signal strength: 52942
> SNR: 65278
> FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC
> Wed Nov 26 15:25:23 GMT 2003
>
>
> Is there something I can do to make this work properly on the first
> execution?
>
> Also, is there a way to reduce the 10 seconds of delay?  That is a long
> time between changing channels!
>  
I don't know, maybe some -T user can help you.
What driver are you using? Try the other :)

> I also can not get libdvb-0.5.2 to compile.  When I run the make -s I get
> the following error:
>
> DVB.cc: In method `int DVB::SetFullFilter(short unsigned int = NOPID)':
> DVB.cc:1591: `DMX_FULL_TS_PID' undeclared (first use this function)
> DVB.cc:1591: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> DVB.cc:1591: for each function it appears in.)
> make[1]: *** [DVB.o] Error 1
> make: *** [libdvb/libdvb.a] Error 2
>
> Does anyone know how I can fix this and make it compile?
>  
insert
#define DMX_FULL_TS_PID 0x2000
at the top of DVB.cc

> Also, I am trying to use the "ts2es" mpeg-utility in there to assist with
> piping a TS output stream to mpg123, and can not see "ts2es" anywhere in
> the libdvb-0.5.2 files.  Has the "ts2es" utility been renamed?
>  
> thanks for the help,
>  Monty
>  
it's a symlink to dvb-mpegtools when it's successfully compiled





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