Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] make the registers of the stv0297 visible for other applications (e.g. i2cdump)

2007-06-08 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: What Jean writes only applies if you have a struct i2c_client and i2c_driver to work with. the you can do lokcing in the i2c_driver. But we don't, IIRC because of problems with bus probing done yb the i2c-core. Not having an i2c_client is also the reason

Re: [linux-dvb] stb0899 troubles

2007-02-24 Thread Ralph Metzler
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer writes: On Saturday, 24. February 2007 22:33, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: Tuning works, so does recording stuff through DMX_SET_PES_FILTER (input = DMX_IN_FRONTEND, output = DMX_OUT_TS_TAP, flags = DMX_IMMEDIATE_START). Actual DVB-S2 channels don't seem to

[linux-dvb] Re: RFC: MPEG encoding and decoding V4L2 API additions

2007-02-16 Thread Ralph Metzler
Mauro Carvalho Chehab writes: manufactured by a plethora of vendors (Technotrend, Hauppauge, Galaxis and many others ) making it very popular. These cards are popularly knowns as the AV7110 based Full Fledged (FF) cards. If the mpeg implementation on DVB API is generic enough to

[linux-dvb] How to handle multiple frontends?

2007-01-14 Thread Ralph Metzler
Klaus Schmidinger writes: I'm wondering how an application is supposed to handle devices with multiple frontends. Let's assume a device that provides dvb/adapter0/frontend0DVB-S dvb/adapter0/frontend1DVB-T so that it can receive both DVB-S and DVB-T. Does

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: hdtv scanning

2006-11-06 Thread Ralph Metzler
Klaus Schmidinger writes: Benny Amorsen wrote: KS == Klaus Schmidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KS The whole HDTV thing is of no interest to me until there is a DVB KS card that can actually replay HDTV in hardware. Why would it have to be the DVB card doing it? That seems

Re: [linux-dvb] hdtv scanning

2006-11-05 Thread Ralph Metzler
Klaus Schmidinger writes: matthieu castet wrote: matthieu castet wrote: Hi, Does somebody know why scan dvb-util or vdr failed to parse video pid of hdtv stream ? Why a patch like the attached one couldn't be added ? After some reflexion, a new category (video hd)

[linux-dvb] Multiple fronends on a single shared ransport bus

2006-10-04 Thread Ralph Metzler
Steven Toth writes: The simple thing about a solution like this is that: a. a/t/szap -a fenum worked with zero changes. b. The recent cx88 bus arbitration patches ensured that only one of adapter0/fe0 or adapter1/fe could be opened at any one time. (As expected). I don't see solution

[linux-dvb] Re: new DVB-T PCI card from Lifeview is out in Australia

2004-07-28 Thread Ralph Metzler
Robert Schlabbach writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] just a head's up that there is a new DVB-T PCI device from Lifeview which is out and on store shelves in Australia. Interesting. Lifeview has had several different DVB-T PCI cards on their website for a while, but I never heard of

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

2004-07-21 Thread Ralph Metzler
Kenneth Aafløy writes: On Wednesday 21 July 2004 00:34, Ralph Metzler wrote: [snip] Alternative: get the i2c_adapter pointer via sub_device, lock it, (in case of linuxtv driver, change i2c adapter name), scan it for already present clients, init them, How

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

2004-07-21 Thread Ralph Metzler
Gerd Knorr writes: Alternative: get the i2c_adapter pointer via sub_device, lock it, (in case of linuxtv driver, change i2c adapter name), scan it for already present clients, init them, How the initialization is done? Via i2c client command calls. FE_REGISTER

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

2004-07-20 Thread Ralph Metzler
Gerd Knorr writes: The sub-drivers get passed a pointer to struct bttv_core which should have everything you need. There are a few helper functions for gpio access which accept bttv_core to identify the correct card. There is a pointer to the pci_dev, so you can look for the matching .1

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

2004-07-20 Thread Ralph Metzler
Gerd Knorr writes: The only place where this happens is in the attach_inform function of the bttv driver. Currently, only the analog tuners and audio controllers are initialized there. So, that's the natural place to also initialize DVB frontends. Of course the dvb_adapter pointer

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

2004-07-19 Thread Ralph Metzler
Kenneth Aafløy writes: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:04:02AM +0200, Kenneth Aafløy wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2004 00:09, Ralph Metzler wrote: No, I also considered this before implementing the FE_(UN)REGISTER stuff but adapters with more than one I2C bus/frontend will not work

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

2004-07-19 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: from their attach_adapter() function. However, if the frontend driver is loaded after the i2c adapter driver, but before the DVB driver, registration would fail. To solve this I would need a second list to keep track of known-but-not-yet-registered frontends.

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

2004-07-17 Thread Ralph Metzler
Kenneth Aafløy writes: It was expected, as the bt878 driver has not been updated yet. Anyways, I have had a look at the bttv driver and there's really no clean way of using the FE_REGISTER/FE_UNREGISTER i2c client commands. As I see it, ideally the frontends should not have to know

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCHES] Frontend kernel i2c conversion.

2004-07-17 Thread Ralph Metzler
Kenneth Aafløy writes: On Sunday 18 July 2004 00:09, Ralph Metzler wrote: No, I also considered this before implementing the FE_(UN)REGISTER stuff but adapters with more than one I2C bus/frontend will not work like this. It also makes the frontend driver and dvbdev depend on I2C

[linux-dvb] Re: av7110 Registers

2004-07-11 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: Jeremy Jones wrote: Is it possible to read/write directly to the av7110 registers or does it require an interface from the firmware ? No/Yes. I want to use the 1/4th decimation mode of the av7110 to shrink the video window. The docuemntation

[linux-dvb] Re: Patch: current I2C trasnition broke KNC1 type cards

2004-06-21 Thread Ralph Metzler
Uli Luckas writes: Am Montag, 21. Juni 2004 01:08 schrieb Kenneth Aafløy: On Sunday 20 June 2004 19:45, Uli Luckas wrote: This seems to be caused by the kernel I2C tarnsition recently done. Frontends like stv0299 expect to find the exact card name in ((struct i2c_adapter *)

[linux-dvb] Re: Twinhan troubles

2004-04-28 Thread Ralph Metzler
Brad Campbell writes: Måns Rullgård wrote: 204, it's got something to do with error correction. I wrote that bit of the driver :p) (All 5 lines of it, Jamie did the heavy lifting) iirc they forget to tell the tuner module to strip the ecc bytes from the back of the TS

[linux-dvb] Re: budget-ci CI interface testing

2004-04-17 Thread Ralph Metzler
Andrew de Quincey writes: Is that like the CI interface on a full featured TT card? I _think_ those have a CiMAX chip on 'em. If it is there are docs on it here. http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=2356 (The Atmel T90FJR seems to be derived from the CiMAX)

[linux-dvb] Re: : VisionPlus Vp-1020 DVB card

2004-04-14 Thread Ralph Metzler
Hi, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] (by way of Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: Hi, This is the message that i received from Twinhan. I had been asking them for quite some time to publish the documentation/src for their drivers. They were very reluctant to do so, saying that their

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

2004-04-07 Thread Ralph Metzler
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 a demux itself). I am not convinced

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB-CI question

2004-03-26 Thread Ralph Metzler
Andrew de Quincey writes: Sure, thats what I was intending to do. However, I need to finish it first in line with these new ideas (I've kept the old code though, but that does not work as I was still debugging it). I'd like to hear Ralph's or Marcus's opinion, as they originally

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] Re: Typhoon/budget*

2004-03-20 Thread Ralph Metzler
Kenneth =?iso-8859-1?q?Aafl=F8y?= writes: On Saturday 20 March 2004 02:04, Ralph Metzler wrote: Kenneth Aafløy writes: A problem with your mail client Ralph? Maybe Ralph has some insight into wether it breaks the original KNC1 card? I am the wrong person to ask. We

[linux-dvb] wait_event_interruptible_timeout not working correctly

2004-03-11 Thread Ralph Metzler
Andrew de Quincey writes: If you look in dvb_frontend_thread(), there is a main loop with the following call: timeout = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(fe-wait_queue,0 != dvb_frontend_is_exiting (fe), delay); This sleeps for a delay of 3*HZ (initially), or until the frontend thread

[linux-dvb] Re: tt dvb-c 2.1 and signal quality

2004-03-09 Thread Ralph Metzler
I get more errors when running setiathome while using czap but this is on a computer that has lots of errors in windows as well. It's strange that signal quality is affected by cpu usage (for better or worse), I mean isn't everything done in hardware when I use the tvout from

[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel OOPS

2004-03-09 Thread Ralph Metzler
Robert Schlabbach writes: KNC released the specs (no begging and/or disassembling necessary ...) but the code we wrote is currently bound to a commercial project. It works since almost a year (at least with the modules without hardware problems). One question: Does the KNC CI

[linux-dvb] Re: Typhoon DVB-S

2004-03-08 Thread Ralph Metzler
Christian Gmeiner writes: Sorry, no idea if the linuxtv drivers support this card. You can try the 2.6.x drivers from the last snapshot on our page. (copy DVB/dvb-kernel directory to your kernel source and select KNC card) Ok i have tried it, but with 2 warnings: WARNING:

[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel OOPS

2004-03-08 Thread Ralph Metzler
Oliver Endriss writes: Also: are there any budget cards already that have drivers that support CAMs? I have to admit that I don't know that. AFAIK there is _no_ budget card driver with CI support under linux. No public and GPLed ones. There are drivers for KNC and Twinhan cards.

[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel OOPS

2004-03-08 Thread Ralph Metzler
Robert Schlabbach writes: AFAIK there is _no_ budget card driver with CI support under linux. Not yet, although Andrew and I have pretty much figured out how the hardware works. However, I am out of it for the foreseeable time, because the only type of CAM I can afford for development

[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel OOPS

2004-03-08 Thread Ralph Metzler
Robert Schlabbach writes: Aha, that's interesting! My symptoms are a bit different, though: Access to the attribute memory and to the COR is fine, and the CAM _does_ correctly That also works fine for me. map its I/O registers when I write the configuration value to it (0x0F). CAM reset

[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel OOPS

2004-03-08 Thread Ralph Metzler
Andrew de Quincey writes: And, unless there is a hardware or firmware CSA descrambler on the card, you will never be able to decrypt pay-tv in a legal way. IANAL, but I don't think that anyone can write a CSA descrambler under GPL. That's incorrect. You don't

[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel OOPS

2004-03-08 Thread Ralph Metzler
Oliver Endriss writes: These are two different things. Remember that some receivers only come with a smart card slot, i.e. they have a builtin CAM. In those, the firmware implements the algorithm which generates the key pairs (64 bits = 8 bytes), with which the MPEG-2 transport stream

[linux-dvb] Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-S

2004-03-06 Thread Ralph Metzler
Kenneth =?iso-8859-1?q?Aafl=F8y?= writes: I've seen a handfull of posts about this card, but not a real confirmation on whether it works or not. I'm considering this card as a secondary card for my MythTV backend, but I have no idea whether it will work or not.

[linux-dvb] Typhoon DVB-S

2004-03-05 Thread Ralph Metzler
Christian Gmeiner writes: Oh as you see, i am also using an dxr3 device and an ir-module. Now i am not sure what combination of teh saa7146 modules i should take. I have an CI interface on the card, but i am not using it. It would be great, if somebody could help me. Maybe one of the

[linux-dvb] DVB-CA slot types

2004-01-29 Thread Ralph Metzler
Andrew de Quincey writes: I can't have this quite right; the AV7110 CA driver in the metzler tree says it is a CA_CI_LINK, yet it takes transport layer EN50221 packets from my thinking (which is likely wrong) this should really have another type CA_CI_TRANSPORT. The capabilities

[linux-dvb] 2.6 request_firmware and frontends

2004-01-28 Thread Ralph Metzler
Andrew de Quincey writes: I just spent a while trying to figure out how I would go about using the 2.6 request_firmware() calls for the tda1004x driver. As far as I can see, its impossible right now. The problem is you have to pass a struct device* into request_firmware() to tell

[linux-dvb] Re: 2.6 request_firmware and frontends

2004-01-28 Thread Ralph Metzler
Andrew de Quincey writes: I am doing it using the normal kernel I2C driver. Every I2C frontend automatically calls the I2C driver attach callback where the card driver can configure it accordingly. The frontend driver does not really need to know anything about higher level

[linux-dvb] Re: 2.6 request_firmware and frontends

2004-01-28 Thread Ralph Metzler
Andrew de Quincey writes: Shouldn't a frontend driver (or rather each I2C driver) even get its own struct driver? I'll do some digging in the 2.6.x code. Not in the linuxtv dvb kernel tree; it doesn't use i2c-core, so the DVB i2c drivers only reference a struct dvb_adapter.. hmm..

[linux-dvb] Re: Example modifications to support request_firmware

2004-01-28 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: But the latter is probably the better interpretation of the API intention and on the long term the only way I see to cleanly load firmwares into MPEG decoders or DSPs in STBs without PCI or USB or i2c bus (or any other bus with a predefined subsystem

[linux-dvb] CI implementation question

2004-01-23 Thread Ralph Metzler
Andrew de Quincey writes: CENELEC EN50221 implies that you can't write data to the CAM if it has data waiting to be read by the host. What have other people's implementations done if a user app attempts to write() data when it is not possible? I could cache the data to be written... I

[linux-dvb] Re: PCMCIA docs and Nova-CI

2004-01-22 Thread Ralph Metzler
Holger Waechtler writes: Holger Waechtler wrote: Andrew de Quincey wrote: Hi, Robert and I are getting on really well with the Nova-CI... we can talk to the attribute memory of a CAM module now. We're wondering if anyone has any information on PCMCIA devices; we're

[linux-dvb] Re: Nova-CI: why does opening /dev/dvb/adapter0/ca0 return no such device?

2004-01-20 Thread Ralph Metzler
Luca Abeni writes: Hi all, On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:24, Carlo E. Prelz wrote: Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: Nova-CI: why does opening /dev/dvb/adapter0/ca0 return no such device? Date: mar, gen 20, 2004 at 02:01:55 +0100 Quoting Johannes Stezenbach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

[linux-dvb] Re: DEC2000-t, Cologne DVB test-mode, howto, guide

2004-01-12 Thread Ralph Metzler
Holger Waechtler writes: Tomi Ollila wrote: Monday Jan 12 16:30:03 +0100 2004 Holger Waechtler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcus Metzler wrote: Holger Waechtler writes: In any case you can get a cheap Nova-T for less than 100EUR as reference you should be able to easily

[linux-dvb] Re: [inbox] Re: Difference btw Binary Only Kernel Modules and Firmware

2003-12-22 Thread Ralph Metzler
Egon Single writes: IMHO it's ok to have firmware in dedicated processors on extension hardware, as long as you have access to the necessary specifications for the communication protocol with other parts of the system (which is lacking for the av7110 firmware I admit) This means

[linux-dvb] Re: video + net with Nexus

2003-12-21 Thread Ralph Metzler
Emard writes: 'full featured dvb-s card' is simply mis-named because it is not FULL featured at all! The feature FULL TS BANDWIDTH, important for large bandwidth downloads and proper network functioning is simply missing in 'full featured dvb-s cards' and is only available on

[linux-dvb] Re: video + net with Nexus

2003-12-21 Thread Ralph Metzler
Augusto Cardoso writes: I may have miss the point here, however, I have run the skystar2 cards at 38Mbps IP payload speeds without dropping any packets for more than 24 hours. With the FCII/FCIIB the maximum speed that I got is about 41Mbps. With FCIII I have tested it at 78Mbps and

[linux-dvb] Re: Losless Section Demux version 1.4

2003-12-20 Thread Ralph Metzler
Emard writes: The old code is broken in boundary conditions, dropping some sections that should have been otherwise correctly received. Details? If e.g. one byte of new section starts at the last byte of TS packet, this section will not be received because the old driver

[linux-dvb] WSS support for DVB-S full featured cards

2003-12-20 Thread Ralph Metzler
Michal Dobrzynski writes: I haven't been able to really do anything butt try and read about it (because my rev1.5 card has not arrived yet) but I really care about WSS support via the RGB out (or SVideo for that matter) of the card. It seems that this would have to be done by setting

[linux-dvb] Re: video + net with Nexus

2003-12-19 Thread Ralph Metzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: joint patch), However dvb-s still has some freeze issue, is not very stable at replaying mpeg, or in general is unstable in large bi-directional traffic between PC and dvb-s card. The workqueue strategy seems not to fix all the stability in 2.4 What is this

[linux-dvb] Re: video + net with Nexus

2003-12-19 Thread Ralph Metzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralph Metzler writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: joint patch), However dvb-s still has some freeze issue, is not very stable at replaying mpeg, or in general is unstable in large bi-directional traffic between PC and dvb-s card. The workqueue

[linux-dvb] Re: video + net with Nexus

2003-12-19 Thread Ralph Metzler
Steffen Barszus writes: For me the crashes are gone, but you can sure forget to try dvb/ip over a nexus. I get data rates of 3-4 kB over the nexus and 120 over a skystar2. If this could be fixed it would sure be nice, but from current discussions i read that the card is not designed to

[linux-dvb] Re: video + net with Nexus

2003-12-19 Thread Ralph Metzler
Alexandre CONRAD writes: For me the crashes are gone, but you can sure forget to try dvb/ip over a nexus. I get data rates of 3-4 kB over the nexus and 120 over a skystar2. If this could be fixed it would sure be nice, but from current discussions i read that the card is not

[linux-dvb] Re: video + net with Nexus

2003-12-19 Thread Ralph Metzler
Alexandre CONRAD writes: Humm... Would the Skystar2 work ? Yes. Does it have an mpeg2 decoder chip ? No. I saw there was that TT-PCline Premium-S. Has anyone tested it ? What That would be the card produced by Technotrend (TT) card which Hauppauge sells under

[linux-dvb] Re: Choosing the best DVB-S premium card

2003-12-15 Thread Ralph Metzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alas, it's still a big problem, even the tv out is good, even the cam is working (only with dvr): there is no vdr teletext subtitles support for canal+ and canalsatellite set of channels. And it's a shame ! Thanks very mutch to everyone for the work he's

[linux-dvb] [RFC] Limitations of current filtering

2003-12-05 Thread Ralph Metzler
Roberto Ragusa writes: [...] At that point dvrY is totally useless and it could be theorically removed (but it's better to not break existing apps, of course). I'm open to suggestions on the matter. I could try to hack the code myself, but maybe someone else with more knowledge

[linux-dvb] Re: section demux rewritten

2003-12-01 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: Emard, Emard wrote: So average_network_user wouldn't have to care which PID is there, and as he szap's also restart network apps to change the dvb0_0 for dvb0_1, but instead just register dvbnet -p 8192 and have one and only dvb0_0 for all

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] Coding style for skystar2.c (both DVB and dvb-kernel)

2003-11-29 Thread Ralph Metzler
Holger Waechtler writes: the dst_frontend driver (and the dec2000_frontend driver too) are pseudo-i2c device drivers. This makes no sense for these cards since the driver is working only in conjunction with the dst.o and ttusb_dec.o driver. As the implement the general attach/detach and

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] Skystar2 pid filters reorganization

2003-11-29 Thread Ralph Metzler
Roberto Ragusa writes: Every accepted packet is tested twice. Discarded packets are tested once (and very early). So we gain here and loose there. In relation to one of the first checks, do you think that the swfilter code is fast enough to let us just open_whole_bandwith when we're

[linux-dvb] Re: section demux rewritten

2003-11-29 Thread Ralph Metzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I planned to support dynamically alloc'ed buffer for purpose of on-demand stretch or shrinnk buffer as section data creep in. This is heading toward to allow network all pids reception by dvbnet -p 8192, which is now non-functional because for 8192 we would have

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] section demux rewritten

2003-11-25 Thread Ralph Metzler
Emard writes: builds some larger chunks without PUSI, to still avoid loosing some section data. (in few tests so far I haven't seen building them over 4096 but..) If that really happens (doubt it) they are sending a broken stream. Your truncate_copy prevents access to

[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] section demux rewritten

2003-11-24 Thread Ralph Metzler
Emard writes: Wise desision, i will test it further, also I'd like to put to_right_place the #define MAX_SECBUFP 4096 or 16384, instead of having secbuf_real[4096 or 16384] +u8 *secbuf; +u8 secbuf_real[16384]; directy in the struct. Although we know the

[linux-dvb] [PATCH] section demux rewritten

2003-11-23 Thread Ralph Metzler
Emard writes: After I read the specs, and I understood what was the functional purpose of the old code (gosh, what a messy coding) I rewrote Sorry, I promise I will not publish any code which might be too messy anymore. Ralph -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Ralph Metzler
Edward Wildgoose writes: 299 EUR isn't really the price someone would pay for such a card. More common are prices around 200 EUR. I have asked at such a store and was told that they sell one in a half year. Even this is more than twice the price you have to pay for a modern

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Ralph Metzler
Hi, Holger Waechtler writes: btw: Klaus, you know that the code responsible for synchronisation issues in the firmware is at least as complex as the code doing the same in ffplay.c. So everybody who believes he can fix those problems in the firmware if he had only the source is as

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Well, AFAICS this old hardware is very widely used, and the main platform VDR is designed for. And judging from the download volume every new version of the linvdr distribution causes (according to Mirko Dölle) VDR must be

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-17 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: Pekka Virtanen wrote: [...] Can you print that in hex to see if there is just one bit flipped? Does not look like this is the case here. The av7110 destroys the adaptation fields if you record and watch at the same time (record with DMX_PES_OTHER to

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-17 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: Ralph Metzler wrote: Johannes Stezenbach writes: The av7110 destroys the adaptation fields if you record and watch at the same time (record with DMX_PES_OTHER to prevent this). However, the DMX_GET_STC should give you correct values. Also, AFAIK

[linux-dvb] Re: Network: a new hope

2003-11-08 Thread Ralph Metzler
Emard writes: While testing some more on network packet loss, here I must review my statement about TS and PID bandwidth! I think that so called 'section' code in dvb_demux.c is not working 100% correctly and must be reviewed. How exactly do you measure the packet loss? Can you

[linux-dvb] Re: Network: a new hope

2003-11-08 Thread Ralph Metzler
Emard writes: See my previous posts where I posted the actual snapshots and indicated the exact points of loss. Just count the dots between two missing ones and convert it to percentage. Each dot represents a packet of nearly 1500 bytes Yes, sorry, I remember your posts. While they prove

[linux-dvb] Re: Network: a new hope

2003-11-08 Thread Ralph Metzler
Emard writes: If I took the TS of something predictable and outputting result, I could binary search in the TS and find it or at least locate neighbouring packets that are before and after the missing one, so in the TS the missing one should be located inbetween them most

[linux-dvb] Re: Network: a new hope

2003-11-04 Thread Ralph Metzler
Robert Schlabbach writes: From: Emard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some issues seem more like a bug than graceful recovery, particularly the fact that the SAA7146A will sometimes not _finish_ DMA transfers. With burst and FIFO threshold set to 4 Dwords, the chip _randomly_ does not DMA

[linux-dvb] dvb_demux.c

2003-10-31 Thread Ralph Metzler
Asier Aguirre writes: [1 text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)] Hi there, I've found a flaw in dvb_demux.c. The value of 'count' in line 269 (see patch) is not granted to be a positive value, yielding in a kernel segfault in the memcopy of line 292, and then hanging the system. [...] +++

[linux-dvb] Re: Brandnew Nova-Ci

2003-10-23 Thread Ralph Metzler
Claas Hilbrecht writes: A Flyvideo DVB-S with SU1278/SHA is working fine for me. I think there were some register settings to be changed but I do not remember the specifics right now. I'll have to look it up. Of course I do not know if these settings would also work with the

[linux-dvb] Brandnew Nova-Ci

2003-10-15 Thread Ralph Metzler
Torsten Duwe writes: The board has B2S1100, Rev.1.0 and TT2002.9 written on it. The parts are the regular SAA7146A and the new SU1278/SHA tuner frontend (note the last A !), which in turn holds the expected stv0299, in a B revision, a TDA 8060TS, an A5059 and a 4.000 xtal, in case any of

[linux-dvb] Re: Brandnew Nova-Ci

2003-10-15 Thread Ralph Metzler
Robert Schlabbach writes: From: Ralph Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Flyvideo DVB-S with SU1278/SHA is working fine for me. I think there were some register settings to be changed but I do not remember the specifics right now. I'll have to look it up. Of course I do not know

[linux-dvb] Re: Alternative v4 demux API

2003-10-10 Thread Ralph Metzler
Michael Hunold writes: Therefore they don't know what a PID is. So why should the A/V PIDs be given to the mpeg decoder device? The Transport Demux has to know them, so it can deliver the demultiplexed data to the decoder. The more advanced hardware I know has a design like this: -

[linux-dvb] Re: Alternative v4 demux API

2003-10-10 Thread Ralph Metzler
Holger Waechtler writes: I'm not aware of any chipset without a dedicated demultiplexer unit, are you? (just to get the convention clear: The Demultiplexer seperates a multiplexed - a concatenated stream of packets with different packet IDs - and routes the packets to the destination

[linux-dvb] Re: Linux DVB API 4 Q's

2003-10-06 Thread Ralph Metzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How should we treat the DVB_DMX_START and DVB_DMX_STOP ioctls for an fd that has many PID filters associated with it? Should these ioctls START and STOP all filters attached to the fd simultaneously, or would it be better to single out specific filters to START

[linux-dvb] KNC1 Driver Loading Problem

2003-10-02 Thread Ralph Metzler
Robert Martin - inmedia writes: 1. Has anyone had success using the DVB driver with a budget type KNC1 card? 2. Does anyone know what the problem is with the module installation hanging? 3. Does anyone know the position the kernel drivers are in to support KNC1, especially the

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-kernel doesn't initialize secondary card

2003-09-26 Thread Ralph Metzler
Robert Schlabbach writes: From: Ralph Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem is with frontend sleeping not a general standby. GPIO 2 only works with the full feature cards and would also put the AV7110 into reset. FWIW, this does not match my observations. On all my three

[linux-dvb] Re: MPEG-4

2003-09-26 Thread Ralph Metzler
Nathan Whittacre writes: Thank you for your response. Are there any plans to implement the CI protocol in the budget cards? If not, for what reasons? Also, what For KNC cards we have written binary only drivers which are only used in complete PC based STBs right now. They might be

[linux-dvb] Re: How to use CA module ?

2003-09-26 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: LINUXTV DEV wrote: #define CA_CI 1 /* CI high level interface */ #define CA_CI_LINK 2 /* CI link layer level interface */ #define CA_CI_PHYS 4 /* CI physical layer level interface */ #define CA_SC 128 /* simple smart card interface */ CA_CI_PHYS

[linux-dvb] Re: Missing Subsystem

2003-09-26 Thread Ralph Metzler
Oliver Endriss writes: On Friday 26 September 2003 14:52, Bruno Hellstern wrote: ... here ist the output of both cards, 1st without subsystem: 00:0d.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-kernel doesn't initialize secondary card

2003-09-25 Thread Ralph Metzler
Hi, I always thought this no return from standby problem only occurs on cards with SU1278/SHA. On KNC and Hauppauge cards (at least on mine) this problem was not so bad. Robert Schlabbach writes: From: Oliver Endriss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Update: | Sep 26 00:52:01 orion kernel:

[linux-dvb] Re: Linux DVB API 4 Q's

2003-09-23 Thread Ralph Metzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Both, one section filter for several PIDs and several filters on one PID, would be useful to have on one file descriptor in some special cases. But both make the demuxer more complicated and only move complexity from user space into the kernel. It is not too

[linux-dvb] Re: Linux DVB API 4 Q's

2003-09-23 Thread Ralph Metzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I beg to differ on this. If you have a look at dvb_demux.c there is the function dvb_dmx_swfilter_section_feed that gets called when we have some section data available from the h/w. In this function we have a pointer to a dvb_demux_filter that is set from

[linux-dvb] Re: Abnormal behaviour of Section Filter

2003-09-19 Thread Ralph Metzler
FilterParameters: Filter: 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mask: ff 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 iFilterHandle:5 PId:11 TId:46 Mask:ff 42 f1 e1 7 f8 df 0 0 0 2 ff 12 60 fd 90 4c 48 10 1 5 42 53 6b 79 42 8 53 6b 79 20 4e 65 77 73 49 7 ff 47

[linux-dvb] Abnormal behaviour of Section Filter

2003-09-18 Thread Ralph Metzler
Thomas Haase writes: (Filter Parameters: Filter 1: 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Filter 2: 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mask all to 0 ) [...] This happens even if I'm using the filters in Hardware or Software mode. Where is my

[linux-dvb] AV7110 MPEG decoder status APIs

2003-08-14 Thread Ralph Metzler
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9gis_Bossut?= writes: A long time ago, there was an API named GetDecoderStatus for requesting information about the MPEG decoder state registers from the AV7110. The REQCOM enum still shows AudioState and VideoState[1-3]. Is there (has there always been) still valuable

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-ttpci problem

2003-08-08 Thread Ralph Metzler
Max Kiva writes: Hi Oliver The manufacturer is VVmer in Taiwan. Card is called [EMAIL PROTECTED] dump follows: This is not a DVB card but a hardware MPEG2 encoder card and probably not supported by any Linux driver yet. What are the names of the other chips on the card? The DVB cards

[linux-dvb] Re: Transponder switching taking considerably longer

2003-08-01 Thread Ralph Metzler
Klaus Schmidinger writes: Anyway, we could do the following: - set a flag before tuning - in dvb_frontend_thread(): call FE_RESET ony if the flag is set - reset the flag when we get FE_HAS_LOCK - FE_RESET will not be called if FE_HAS_LOCK drops out for short periods on an

[linux-dvb] Removing PCI-latency settings from CVS

2003-07-31 Thread Ralph Metzler
Rene Bartsch writes: obviously nobody is responsible for the functions setting the PCI-latency to 64 in DVB-driver (maybe that functions just dropped in while flying from venus to mars ... ;o) ). According to CVS logs it was introduced in revision 1.12 of the file. (Of course this could

[linux-dvb] Clarification on driver CI support

2003-07-24 Thread Ralph Metzler
Matthew Davis writes: I have been searching the list on information about driver CI support with different cards. The extent of driver support is still somewhat unclear. As I understand it, the Hauppauge Nexus CI can be used, while the Nova cannot. I have seen references indicating

[linux-dvb] DVB-s / CAM problem

2003-07-23 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johan van Sterkenburg writes: I'm trying to use my DVB-s/CAM-module to tune to NED1/NED2/NED3/TMF/...other dutch channels. I use: Software: (from the metzler brothers) -DVB driver version 1.1.7 -libdvb 0.4.1 -tuxzap_programs 0.4.1 - RTuxZap

[linux-dvb] Re: multicast network/IPover DVB again

2003-07-18 Thread Ralph Metzler
Michael Glaum writes: Johannes Stezenbach writes: The current DVB drivers from CVS try to get the MAC from the eeprom on the card and use it as default. I don't know if the code which reads the epprom is correct. Ralph Metzler writes: Only for TT based cards and only

[linux-dvb] Re: multicast network/IPover DVB again

2003-07-17 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: Since the Filiago-Proxy is proprietary (binary-only), I don't know what it does. I guess it joins one or more multicast-groups. It's possible that the code which sets the DVB filters according to the multicast addresses has bugs. As far as I have

[linux-dvb] Re: Busy waiting in i2c_busy_rise_and_fall (was: Re: Re: full featured card without signal and required video memory investigation)

2003-07-15 Thread Ralph Metzler
Robert Schlabbach writes: FWIW, I found the IICSTA bug with a Siemens DVB-Cable card, which had an SAA7146A with a manufacturing date in 2000 on it (if I understand the markings on the chip correctly). Maybe Philips has fixed the bug in an updated revision of the chip...? As to the

[linux-dvb] Re: Getting in shape for 2.6

2003-07-13 Thread Ralph Metzler
Robert Schlabbach writes: But, take a look at http://forum.digitalfernsehen.de - I just found the following post there (in German, sorry to the non-German speakers here): Ursprünglich sollte DVB-T in NRW bereits am 1.1.2004 im Raum Köln/Bonn in den Regelbetrieb gehen. Allerdings wurde

[linux-dvb] Re: Getting in shape for 2.6

2003-07-12 Thread Ralph Metzler
Robert Schlabbach writes: From: Ralph Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Schlabbach writes: The problem is that noone has a card with the TDA10046H yet (well, actually I have one, but it is SAA7134-based...) Why is that a problem? The PCI bridge does not really matter

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