[linux-dvb] Re: stability problems + closing and re-opening the frontend

2004-04-08 Thread Valsecchi Patrick
To clarify in this case, the FE_SET_FRONTEND succeeds, but calling select on the demuxer fails? Exactly. And I tested with the drivers in 2.6.4 and that specific problem doesn't happen on that version. What's weird is that I don't see where the dvb_frontend_poll function may return an

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-kernel AirStar (SkyStar2) question

2004-04-08 Thread Niklas Peinecke
Antonio Mancuso wrote: Hello, I am trying to make an AirStar DVB-T PCI (REV: 1.0) card working. This card has the MT352 chip in the frontend. Yesterday I got the CVS snapshot of dvb-kernel and built the build-2.4 directory. Then I tried to do: # insmod ./dvb-core.o # insmod ./mt352.o # insmod

[linux-dvb] Re: stability problems + closing and re-opening the frontend

2004-04-08 Thread Valsecchi Patrick
It has to be either the lack of DISEQC or is specific to your card type. Oh, or it could be 2.6 I suppose. Target kernel for me right now is 2.4.25. I'll get 2.6 going on that machine as well. This morning, I tried 2.4.25 with the snapshot you gave me. The two re-openning bugs cannot be

[linux-dvb] skystar 2 on opensky

2004-04-08 Thread babar haq
Hi Can some one point me to some online documents which can help me configure my skystar 2 with opensky service. Thanx Babar -- ___ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm -- Info: To unsubscribe send a

[linux-dvb] Re: stability problems + closing and re-opening the frontend

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew de Quincey
On Thursday 08 April 2004 08:49, Valsecchi Patrick wrote: It has to be either the lack of DISEQC or is specific to your card type. Oh, or it could be 2.6 I suppose. Target kernel for me right now is 2.4.25. I'll get 2.6 going on that machine as well. This morning, I tried 2.4.25 with

[linux-dvb] Re: stability problems + closing and re-opening the frontend

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew de Quincey
On Thursday 08 April 2004 07:08, Valsecchi Patrick wrote: To clarify in this case, the FE_SET_FRONTEND succeeds, but calling select on the demuxer fails? Exactly. And I tested with the drivers in 2.6.4 and that specific problem doesn't happen on that version. What's weird is that I don't

[linux-dvb] dvb-apps : typo in szap/README, missing files (COPYING, ...)

2004-04-08 Thread Olivier Lourdais
Hi, I've found a little type in szap README file (a czap command for--- linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/util/szap/README.orig 2004-01-25 20:23:39.0 +0100 +++ linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/util/szap/README 2004-04-08 11:07:33.295546728 +0200 @@ -13,13 +13,13 @@ $ ./czap -c channels.conf-dvbc-berlin Ar

[linux-dvb] Re: stability problems + closing and re-opening the frontend

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew de Quincey
On Thursday 08 April 2004 08:49, Valsecchi Patrick wrote: It has to be either the lack of DISEQC or is specific to your card type. Oh, or it could be 2.6 I suppose. Target kernel for me right now is 2.4.25. I'll get 2.6 going on that machine as well. This morning, I tried 2.4.25 with

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-apps : typo in szap/README, missing files (COPYING, ...)

2004-04-08 Thread Olivier Lourdais
Hi, I've found a little type in szap README file (a czap command for Oooops sorry for the too early sending ;) -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe linux-dvb as subject.

[linux-dvb] dvb-apps : typo in szap/README, missing files (COPYING, ...)

2004-04-08 Thread Olivier Lourdais
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've found a little typo in szap README file (a czap command for a DVB-T device), see attached patch. Another problem is that there isn't any COPYING, CONTRIBUTORS, ... files in the linuxtv-dvb-apps archive (they are also missing in

[linux-dvb] Re: stability problems + closing and re-opening the frontend

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew de Quincey
On Thursday 08 April 2004 08:49, Valsecchi Patrick wrote: It has to be either the lack of DISEQC or is specific to your card type. Oh, or it could be 2.6 I suppose. Target kernel for me right now is 2.4.25. I'll get 2.6 going on that machine as well. This morning, I tried 2.4.25 with

[linux-dvb] Re: LinuxDVB V4 API questions (3)

2004-04-08 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 04/07/04 15:55, Ralph Metzler wrote: Alasdair FARMER writes: 2) With regard to playback of recordings I am unclear how this will work in the new model... If a recorded stream were being written to a demux then which instance (given that the handle is actually to a filter rather than

[linux-dvb] 2.6.5 interrupt handling - kernel panic

2004-04-08 Thread Philip Lawatsch
Hi, I'm using the dvb drivers supplied with 2.6.5 I've got one nova, one nova-ci (without the ci module attached)and one ff card (rev 1.5). I'm using vdr on this box. After leaving this box alone for a while (some hours) i do get kernel panics. The trace i've got looks like this

[linux-dvb] Re: LinuxDVB V4 API questions (3)

2004-04-08 Thread Alasdair FARMER
I also think that using the demux for memory input does not make much sense. Usually you have demux unit with several demuxes and several inputs and each demux can choose the input it wants to use, including memory input. So, the frontend devices, whether there is an actual

[linux-dvb] Re: ALPS-TDMB7 ALPS-TDLB7 tuner problems?

2004-04-08 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 07:39:38AM +0200, Carlo E. Prelz wrote: Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: ALPS-TDMB7 ALPS-TDLB7 tuner problems? Date: Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:30:29PM +0100 Quoting Andrew de Quincey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Actually, maybe the zigzag scan is also the culprit here.

[linux-dvb] Re: PATCH: pctvsat minor fix

2004-04-08 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 01:47:58PM +0200, Peter Hettkamp wrote: Hello, I have a small fix for the kdvb-fe taking too much CPU power issue on cx24110-based cards: --- /usr/src/linux/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cx24110.c~ Fri Jan 9 07:59:05 2004 +++

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB-CI question

2004-04-08 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 01:18:40PM +, Andrew de Quincey wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 15:14, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Strange, from what I know a TPDU can be at most 2048 byte long... Out of interest, where does that 2048 figure come from? I can't see it in EN50221 or R206-001. I'm

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] Ultra Light Encapsulation

2004-04-08 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Holger Waechtler wrote: Michael Hunold wrote: On 03/31/04 11:11, Hilmar Linder wrote: +#define FEEDTYPE_SEC0 +#define FEEDTYPE_TS1 I think these #defines are rather obscure. Why not rename them to DVB_NET_FEED_MPE and DVB_NET_FEED_ULE? While preparing a new patchset for the 2.6

[linux-dvb] Re: brisbane/australia scan and channels file

2004-04-08 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:16:11PM +1000, Clinton Roy wrote: Hi guys, I'm not entirely sure if this is the appropriate place for this, but here it is: # Australia / Brisbane (Mt Coot-tha transmitters) Comitted to CVS. Thanks, Johannes -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL

[linux-dvb] Re: stability problems + closing and re-opening the frontend

2004-04-08 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Oliver Endriss wrote: On Friday 02 April 2004 18:11, Gregor Lawatscheck wrote: Yes it's possibly a firmware bug introduced after 0.9.4 because that + release doesn't show the behavior or at least not within 1000 channel changes or

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB-CI question

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew de Quincey
On Thursday 08 April 2004 16:04, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 01:18:40PM +, Andrew de Quincey wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 15:14, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Strange, from what I know a TPDU can be at most 2048 byte long... Out of interest, where does that 2048

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB-CI question

2004-04-08 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 01:18:40PM +, Andrew de Quincey wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 15:14, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Strange, from what I know a TPDU can be at most 2048 byte long... Out of interest, where does that 2048 figure come from? I can't see

[linux-dvb] Re: stability problems + closing and re-opening the frontend

2004-04-08 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:22:22AM +0200, Valsecchi Patrick wrote: In my kind of application (monitoring) I don't really care if I loose some packets. Would it be possible to reset the firmware when that happens? That's what I wanted to try to do by closing the firmware and re-opening it.

[linux-dvb] Re: LinuxDVB V4 API questions (3)

2004-04-08 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello, On 04/07/04 12:55, Alasdair FARMER wrote: 1) I have a concern from a robustness perspective about the way in which connections between demux's and decoders is handled. If we assume that we have a demux feeding a decoder, through a mmapped buffer. What happens if the file handle on

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-apps : typo in szap/README, missing files (COPYING, ...)

2004-04-08 Thread Olivier Lourdais
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've found a little typo in szap README file (a czap command for a DVB-T device), see attached patch. Found another typo in the same file (/dev/dvr instead of /dev/dvb), new patch (cancelling the previous one). -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

[linux-dvb] Re: Continuity counter inconsistency

2004-04-08 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Oliver Maier wrote: playing around I found a transponder where the broadcast company decided to use nearly random continuity counters (CC). Is this permited by the DVB standard? Which transponder is this? On Astra 19.2E 10832/H symbolrate 22000. A good example is pid 0x0fa1.

[linux-dvb] Re: which driver for 2.6.5-mm2?

2004-04-08 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Gregoire Favre wrote: the dvb-kernel/patches-2.6 hasn't been updated for some times now, so it's a version that have problem with Matrox G550 and xawtv... And I don't want to use the makelinks, I could of course use the build-2.6 but then I can't make some modules in the kernel. So,

[linux-dvb] Re: Continuity counter inconsistency

2004-04-08 Thread Marcus Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: Oliver Maier wrote: playing around I found a transponder where the broadcast company decided to use nearly random continuity counters (CC). Is this permited by the DVB standard? Which transponder is this? On Astra 19.2E 10832/H

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-apps : typo in szap/README, missing files (COPYING, ...)

2004-04-08 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 06:45:08PM +0200, Olivier Lourdais wrote: Hi, I've found a little typo in szap README file (a czap command for a DVB-T device), see attached patch. Found another typo in the same file (/dev/dvr instead of /dev/dvb), new patch (cancelling the previous one).

[linux-dvb] Re: latency in tuning in dvb-kernel

2004-04-08 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 02:53:25PM -0400, Jeremy Hall wrote: I recall some time ago that somebody was working on making the cards change channels faster--they had noticed as did I that the old HEAD (before NEWSTRUCT) could tune channels faster than dvb-kernel. I know the i2c bus timing

[linux-dvb] Re: Continuity counter inconsistency

2004-04-08 Thread Wolfgang Thiel
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 07:05:47PM +0200, Marcus Metzler wrote: Johannes Stezenbach writes: Oliver Maier wrote: playing around I found a transponder where the broadcast company decided to use nearly random continuity counters (CC). Is this permited by the DVB standard?

[linux-dvb] Re: Continuity counter inconsistency

2004-04-08 Thread Robert Schlabbach
From: Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oliver Maier wrote: On Astra 19.2E 10832/H symbolrate 22000. A good example is pid 0x0fa1. For me the bit error rate is too high to get useful output. On pid 0x0fa1 I get a few packets every one in a while, all with the error indicator set -- no