[linux-dvb] Re: dumping the full TS with a WinTv NOVA-t USB

[Niklas Peinecke <n.peinecke@web.de>]

Francesco Ciacca wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	i'm using WinTv NOVA-t USB with my Suse 9.2,kernel 2.6.8-24.5 x86_64 (i have 
> a AMD64 3000+) .
> Everything works fine so i can watch DTT AV channel, using vdr on some pid and 
> so on. I knows that the receiver is a budget one (in fact linuxdvb is using  
> the tda1004x+dvb_ttusb_budget modules) and so i suppose that the software 
> demux receives the full TS through the usb bus. 
> My main target is to obtain a dump file of a full TS on-air, so i tried to set 
> 0x2000 (8192) as pid for programs like test_dvr or dvbstream or my own 
> program wrote starting from documentation's examples. 
> Unfortunately, this seems not to work. While i can get a dump of a single or 
> of several pids, i can't get all the TS "as is" in this manner, because in 
> this nothing comes out from the vdr
> Anyone can help? Any suggestion?
> Thanx a lot in advance
> Francesco  
I'm not 100% sure since I don't have a NOVA-t USB, but usually you 
cannot receive a full ts with USB devices because USB bandwidth is too 
limited (unless you have a - still very rare - USB 2.0 device).

Full ts dumps can only be got with pci cards.

Regards,

Niklas