[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

[Bruno Prior <bruno@rpgd.uklinux.net>]

Holger Waechtler wrote:
>
> do you have a Fullfeatured card with MPEG decoder onboard (do you see a
> chip labeled with a big 'DSP' logo and the string av7110 or av7111 in
> the name)?

I am using this machine for email, so I can't check right now, but I am
pretty certain it is not a fullfeatured card. It is the Hauppauge WinTV
Nova-T, which I understand is equivalent to the basic Technotrend card.
I think the full-featured cards are not even available in the UK - at
least not advertised.

> use a recent driver from CVS and the makedev.napi script in the
> DVB/driver directory. The video device /dev/dvb/adapter0/video is not
> intended as v4l device, you use it to control the MPEG video decoder.

I was using 20021229, which I thought was pretty recent, but I have now
downloaded 20030107 and I see you have made a lot of changes. I've run
make and make insmod. The only compaints were about changes to
definitions, as I had incorporated the 20021229 dvb modules into the
kernel source.

I use devfs, so I have not run makedev.napi, but I had run it for
20021229, so do I need to remove /dev/ost?

make in the szap directory compiled the *zap programs without error. I
have what I think is a correctly configured ~/.tzap/channels.conf. When
I do ./tzap BBC-1, I get (there will be problems with email wrapping this):

using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
tuning to 505833334 Hz
status 01 | signal 2f2f | snr c8c8 | ber 0000ffff | unc 0000000e |
status 1f | signal 2f2f | snr e9e9 | ber 0000004e | unc 00000000 |
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 2f2f | snr e9e9 | ber 0000004b | unc 00000000 |
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 2f2f | snr e8e8 | ber 0000004f | unc 00000000 |
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 2f2f | snr e9e9 | ber 0000005a | unc 00000000 |
FE_HAS_LOCK

etc. The program keeps printing these lines until I kill it. Shouldn't
it tune the card and exit?

ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/ gives:
total 0
crw-------    1 root     root     250,   4 Jan  1  1970 demux0
crw-------    1 root     root     250,   5 Jan  1  1970 dvr0
crw-------    1 root     root     250,   3 Jan  1  1970 frontend0
crw-------    1 root     root     250,   7 Jan  1  1970 net0

Assuming I get the card tuned, how do I use mplayer to view the output?
I couldn't find any clue in mplayer's manpage.






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