[linux-dvb] driver ioctl CA_SET_DESCR

2003-02-24 Thread Steven Toth
Hello, Using the linuxtv-dvb-1.0.0-pre1 driver, I'm trying to pass valid CWs to the ioctl but the card is refusing to decrypt the stream. I can do this successfully using earlier version of the driver and a 'special' version of the firmware. Can anyone confirm whether this functionality

[linux-dvb] Re: driver ioctl CA_SET_DESCR

2003-02-24 Thread Steven Toth
Using the linuxtv-dvb-1.0.0-pre1 driver, I'm trying to pass valid CWs to the ioctl but the card is refusing to decrypt the stream. I can do this successfully using earlier version of the driver and a 'special' version of the firmware. Can anyone confirm whether this functionality is/should be

[linux-dvb] Re: Concurrent reads from dvr0 ?

2003-11-26 Thread Steven Toth
Hello all, I too have a concurrent read issues. Call me stupid, maybe I've missed something in the documentation, can anyone shine any light on whether this is supported? Steve Nico wrote: Hi, today I modified mplayer so that a first instance can tune a frequency and read from dvr0, while

Re: [linux-dvb] Please see if you can help: Twinhan VP 1025 DVB-S PCICard

2006-08-13 Thread Steven Toth
I would REALLY apprecate any help or insght you might have on this. thank you very much for your consideration. What oscillator values does your LNB use? The last time I tried to use dvbtune in the US I had to change the hard coded defines from 9.750 / 10.6 GHz to match my US specific

Re: [linux-dvb] Please see if you can help: Twinhan VP 1025 DVB-SPCICard

2006-08-14 Thread Steven Toth
Unfortunately I dont know much about the LNB. I went and remove it from the dish but the identification sticker has worn away. It came from a common 18 inch DirecTV dish. there are two LNB's in there, I think, because there are two coax outs. I'm only using one at the moment because I

Re: [linux-dvb] Please see if you can help: Twinhan VP 1025 DVB-SPCICard

2006-08-14 Thread Steven Toth
// With a diseqc system you may need different values per LNB. I hope // no-one ever asks for that :-) #define SLOF (11700*1000UL) #define LOF1 (11250*1000UL) #define LOF2 (11250*1000UL) is that right? Yes. Still, the unit seems not to tune at all. I keep thinking I'm missing

Re: [linux-dvb] Please see if you can help: Twinhan VP 1025 DVB-S PCICard

2006-08-15 Thread Steven Toth
I suppose it could be a weak signal. I am using an inline signal meter to aim the dish and it shows a signal. How about polarization? It turns out this LNB is Circular only (thank you Steven Toth). How do I get dvbtune or other szap to use circular (L or R) polarity

Re: [linux-dvb] Please see if you can help: Twinhan VP 1025 DVB-SPCICard

2006-08-15 Thread Steven Toth
I don't fully understand the real electrical/RF implications of circular left/right vs linear horizontal/vertical other than to say that it's related to how the signal is sent (polarised) from the satellite (it's polarisation) and that you have to have a matching LNB of the same

Re: [linux-dvb] Thank you,and a another question re: Twinhan 1025 tuning

2006-08-17 Thread Steven Toth
I see the ber and unc readings from szap are way out there. And signal and snr are too low. Is this just signal strength or is there someting else I can try? Any other insights? Sync Lock looks good, maybe they've just switched to an encrypted stream. If it's jumping in and out of lock

Re: [linux-dvb] Thank you, and a another question re: Twinhan 1025tuning

2006-08-17 Thread Steven Toth
AFAIK, DirecTV uses DSS and not DVB. DSS is not supported. http://www.tech-faq.com/dss.shtml DSS doesn't use the MPEG-2 standard whereas DVB uses the MPEG-2 standard You're right, but what Dave really meant to say was Dish Network TV, which does use regular DVB on Echostar 7. Steve

Re: [linux-dvb] linuxtv.org dvb wiki is vandalised [bcc][faked-from][heur][sls][spam-bayes]

2006-08-25 Thread Steven Toth
maybe someone on the list can rollback to last version. pls. check http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Done. ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb

Re: [linux-dvb] WinTV PVR 1300 suport

2006-08-27 Thread Steven Toth
Sorry to barge in, and i'm sure lots of other people have already asked about this card, i know that Hauppauge PVR 1300 did then got support removed. is there a current project on the card or has future support been abandoned? It's queued behind a dvb-s2 project that I'm working on. I'm

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: What has happend to Manus repositories?

2006-08-29 Thread Steven Toth
I deleted my repositories at linuxtv.org, because of (1) a post on v4l-dvb-maintainer from Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking people to remove of unnecessary trees. It was getting quite hard to find out the trees from there as it was getting real cluttered. So i choose to put my

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: What has happend to Manus repositories?

2006-08-29 Thread Steven Toth
Johannes, any comments in terms of multiprotocol generally? I have plenty of other things to do and essentially have stopped doing any linux-dvb development. Some people seem to think that because I spent lots of time reviewing and discussing the API proposal, it is my duty to spend even

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: What has happend to Manus repositories?

2006-08-30 Thread Steven Toth
I've been working on a 3 week old tree you gave me from thadathil.net. Thanks for this. I've added support for a new S2 demod and tuner (for the WinTV-HVR4000). I'd like to get the entire tree up on linuxtv.org, at least people can comment. I sense a level of frustration in your comments. Let

[linux-dvb] HVR1300 changes

2006-08-30 Thread Steven Toth
Hi, A number of people have been asking for updates to the previous WinTV-HVR1300 tree at www.linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/v4l-dvb. In response I've merged the older changes with a current v4l-dvb tree and created www.linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/hvr1300. The amount of change was reasonably extensive

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: What has happend to Manus repositories?

2006-08-31 Thread Steven Toth
Manu, So you have no objections if I publish my patches and your multiprotocol tree on linuxtv.org for review/comment/testing? I think i should do a bit more testing before it goes publishing I agree. That's why I want to put it up under linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/something so

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: What has happend to Manus repositories?

2006-08-31 Thread Steven Toth
So you have no objections if I publish my patches and your multiprotocol tree on linuxtv.org for review/comment/testing? I think i should do a bit more testing before it goes publishing I agree. That's why I want to put it up under linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/something so we

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: What has happend to Manus repositories?

2006-08-31 Thread Steven Toth
I wanted to push it up only after i fixed, what i thought to be fixed and not due to politics. I very well understand that there is indeed a backstage politician, maybe you also got influenced by him. A backstage politician? What on earth are you talking about? We need to get this project

Re: [linux-dvb] Wintv Nova/TT Budget problem with big transponder

2006-09-01 Thread Steven Toth
I'm working with a TT Budget card under Linux (Kernel 2.6/Suse10.1). With this system I can not tune transponders with a symbol rate of 40 MS. Smaller and bigger transponders work. Interesting. Just out of curiosity, which transponders on which sats are testing with? Regards, Steve

[linux-dvb] Re: multiproto

2006-09-02 Thread Steven Toth
linuxtv.org/hg/~manu/multiproto contains the API changes as well as some fixes that came in later. Working at a local tree at my side here. if any changes are there will push it in there. Hope it will be useful. Thanks Manu, it's very much appreciated. Steve

[linux-dvb] WinTV-HVR4000 / 4000Lite support

2006-09-03 Thread Steven Toth
Hi, I've cloned Manu's DVB-S2 multiproto tree to add support for two new products. The tree can be found under http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/multiproto The description of the tree shows that two or three things are remaining and (as boards begin to be released) these can be finalised.

Re: [linux-dvb] HVR1300 changes

2006-09-05 Thread Steven Toth
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I am new to Linux. Does this mean that there is actually a way to get a HVR1300 (or at least some of it) working with Linux (more specific; with MythTV)? See the original mail. Download www.linuxtvrg/hg/~stoth/hvr1300. DVB-T is definitely working

Re: SV: [linux-dvb] HVR1300 changes [spam-bayes]

2006-09-06 Thread Steven Toth
Wandunia Thomas wrote: This is the first time I try installing anything without a detailed step by step guide, so I'm probably doing something wrong: I downloaded the tree and untared it. I switched to the root directory of the untared files and tried make install (after su). Then I rebootet,

Re: [linux-dvb] WinTV NOVA-T 500

2006-09-12 Thread Steven Toth
need firmware. In the .inf file there is a file called bristol.hex, but I don't found it in the windows cd drivers, and I don't have Windows Xp. Any ideas how to get the firmware? Any one with this card an Windows Xp have this file (system32\hauppauge\bristol.hex) ? It doesn't exist (or

Re: [linux-dvb] Preliminary support of Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual

2006-09-13 Thread Steven Toth
Patrick Boettcher wrote: Hi all, Very preliminary support of the Nova-T 500 Dual is now ready to be tested. Thank you Patrick. Steve ___ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb

Re: [linux-dvb] Preliminary support of Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual

2006-09-14 Thread Steven Toth
The driver work very well with the card ID 2040:9950, except one transponder, but only with the first tuner. The second tuner don't work. I'm wondering what is the difference between the device with 9941 and 9950? Steve, is there a difference? 9941 typically has no IR, 9950

[linux-dvb] Multiple demods on a single transport bus

2006-09-14 Thread Steven Toth
Hi, I'm working on drivers for three products that share a single transport bus with two or more demodulators or other pieces of silicon. A good example of this is the hvr1300. http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/hvr1300. Other examples are the HVR3000 (which has a cx22702 and cx24123

Re: [linux-dvb] Preliminary support of Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual(take 2)

2006-09-18 Thread Steven Toth
I think you mean line 70 in dib0700_devices.c dib0700_set_gpio(adap-dev, GPIO0, GPIO_OUT, 0); msleep(10); // LNA It work better for me. I can tune all the channels. Patrick, In the windows driver we leave the LNA off at all times, but have a registry override to allow users to enable

Re: [linux-dvb] Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1100 possible??

2006-09-19 Thread Steven Toth
does anyone of know, if there is any possibility to use the Hauppage WinTV HVR-1100 with linux (full-functional)? Any tipps for an DVB-T Card with analog functions in combination which is full-functional supportetd by linux?? It's fully working. If you're distro does not support it then

Re: [linux-dvb] Preliminary support of Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual(take2)

2006-09-19 Thread Steven Toth
In the windows driver we leave the LNA off at all times, but have a registry override to allow users to enable it. It's a single LNA for both tuners - hence, it has its problems. Switching the LNA dynamically in a TV app isn't something the API allows. How about a module load param? As

[linux-dvb] Re: cx24116 [sls][spam-bayes]

2006-09-19 Thread Steven Toth
I note that there is a cx24116 driver in your multiproto tree but is there any firmware freely available anywhere? I thought it was only available under NDA etc., The firmware can be extract from the windows binary driver. Once product begins shipping I'll update the extract script with a

Re: [linux-dvb] Preliminary support of Hauppauge Nova-T 500Dual(take2)

2006-09-19 Thread Steven Toth
hermann pitton wrote: Hi, Am Dienstag, den 19.09.2006, 16:51 -0400 schrieb Steven Toth: In the windows driver we leave the LNA off at all times, but have a registry override to allow users to enable it. It's a single LNA for both tuners - hence, it has its problems. Switching the LNA

Re: [linux-dvb] V4L vs DVB [bcc][faked-from][heur][spam-bayes]

2006-09-20 Thread Steven Toth
stream. Doesn't this mean that the quality of the resultant image is dependant upon the quality of the card manufacturer components (i.e. cheap units are likely to give poor perfomance) whereas with DVB devices a cheap device should give identical results to a higher quality unit (assuming a

Re: [linux-dvb] V4L vs DVB

2006-09-20 Thread Steven Toth
Assuming a decent tuner lock, your basic assumption is true but the subject runs much deeper than that. Always, but at last my basic understanding appears to be correct. Can a V4L device provide MPEG streams like a DVB device? How does it provide EPG type info? It has support for

Re: [linux-dvb] V4L vs DVB

2006-09-20 Thread Steven Toth
Which product are you planning to work on? Which components? Perhaps someone is already working on it, or we already have drivers for parts of it. It's unbranded but carries a product code of VS-DVBT 355U Upon plugging the device, lsusb reports the device

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: DVB-S on quad TV tuner card from Medion PC MD8800

2006-09-28 Thread Steven Toth
In the case of the cx2388x cards, Hauppauge has an HVR3000 card that has both DVB-T and DVB-S demods on it. Only one can be used at a time, as they would share a single transport to move the ts data. Steve Toth has been working on the 8802-mpeg port functionality of the cx88 driver, and he

[linux-dvb] Re: WinTV HVR1300 drivers

2006-09-29 Thread Steven Toth
I grab the latest hg drivers from http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/hvr1300-final as Steven said in a message of 06 Sep 2006, I followed the usual procedure: make clean make distclean make This has now reached the mainline. Download http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb and try again. This

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

2006-10-04 Thread Steven Toth
Hi, The WinTV-HVR3000 has a single transport bus on the cx2388x shared between a cx22702 DVB-T and a cx24123 DVB-S. The windows driver manages the hardware to ensure an application can stream from one or the other demod. In terms of Linux and the current tree, it's a trivial thing to add

[linux-dvb] Nova-T-USB2 IR

2006-10-04 Thread Steven Toth
All, I'm not sure whether anyone has the IR working for the Nova-T-USB2 with the Hauppauge firmware, but just in case it isn't: Send 2 byte buffer to pipe0 containing 0x04 0x35 Read 4 byte buffer fr pipe1 containing: // Bytes: 76543210 76543210 76543210 76543210 //

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: DVB-S on quad TV tuner card from Medion PC MD8800

2006-10-09 Thread Steven Toth
Hartmut Hackmann wrote: Hi, Michael Krufky wrote: Hartmut Hackmann wrote: There is a driver for the DVB-S channel decoder of this card available now. The problem is: how to select the frontends. Hello Hartmut, I changed the list cc from v4l to dvb, as that would be more

[linux-dvb] Multiple frontend support

2006-10-10 Thread Steven Toth
Hi, I've made some patches which should help the cx88 and saa7134 drivers with multiple frontends. The patch description should describe the basic changes well enough. See http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/hvr3000. The patches are far from complete but they should give anyone a basic overview of

Re: Freecom DVB-T card tuning, Re: [linux-dvb] Trouble with Pinnacle310i DVB-T

2006-10-12 Thread Steven Toth
Benjamin Gillam wrote: This is exactly it! If you add 167k to 48983 you get basically 49000 which is the frequency that works with this card! [See my mail, subject Tuning problems: Freecom card with USB ID 14aa:0226 on 10/10/06 17:19 (it has USB ID 14aa:0225 when cold)] So how would I

Re: [linux-dvb] HD3000 (cx88) and GA-965P-DS3 Problem.

2006-10-15 Thread Steven Toth
No cx88-dvb is loaded. When I try to load it: mediacore:~ sudo /sbin/modprobe cx88-dvb FATAL: Error inserting cx88_dvb (/lib/modules/2.6.19-rc1-mm1conroe/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dvb.ko): No such device I have tried using the head version of DVB, and updating the kernel to the

Re: [linux-dvb] HD3000 (cx88) and GA-965P-DS3 Problem.

2006-10-16 Thread Steven Toth
Joshua Prismon wrote: I am still getting the hang of this code, so it's very very possible that I am missing something basic here. I don't think the problem is in the request_aquire function. In fact that doesn't even appear to be every called. The DVB driver registered correctly with the

Re: [linux-dvb] HD3000 (cx88) and GA-965P-DS3 Problem.

2006-10-16 Thread Steven Toth
. The 965P motherboards are fairly new, and this may be a larger linux problem. Right now I am playing around with PCI addressing modes to see if there is a problem in the ACPI layer. On 10/16/06, Steven Toth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Prismon wrote: I am still getting the hang

Re: [linux-dvb] HD3000 (cx88) and GA-965P-DS3 Problem.

2006-10-16 Thread Steven Toth
don't see a location to hexdump? Thanks for all of your help here. On 10/16/06, Steven Toth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See below. Joshua Prismon wrote: It worked on a different motherboard (an ASUS A8N-SLI deluxe with a socket 939 AMD64). I replaced the motherboard with a Intel 965P

Re: [linux-dvb] MPE pointer field too big

2006-10-17 Thread Steven Toth
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006, Harnois Anne-Sophie wrote: Some of the MPEG-TS packets I receive contain a pointer field bigger than 184 (continuity counter is correct). How to explain that? Shouldn't Pointer field be inside 0 and 184? Any comments? Are you sure PUSI

Re: [linux-dvb] HD3000 (cx88) and GA-965P-DS3 Problem.

2006-10-17 Thread Steven Toth
Joshua Prismon wrote: Eeprom works now. Here is the memory: 80 08 07 0d 0a 02 40 00 04 50 60 00 82 08 00 01 |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| 0010 0e 04 08 01 02 20 00 60 70 75 75 3c 28 3c 28 40 |. .`puu((@| 0020 60 60 40 40 00 00 00 00 00 37 46 28 28 55 00 00 |``@@.7F((U..|

Re: [linux-dvb] HD3000 (cx88) and GA-965P-DS3 Problem.

2006-10-18 Thread Steven Toth
with a new binary (or post the code for the executable) to fix it. On 10/18/06, Steven Toth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand why the pci sub device registers as 7060:3000 (which comes from the eeprom) but you can't find the eeprom. If the eeprom is dead I expected the PCI device list to show

Re: [linux-dvb] black gold pci-express dual DVB-T card [bcc][faked-from][heur][spam-bayes]

2006-10-22 Thread Steven Toth
Joseph Heenan wrote: Hi there, I've run out of PCI slots in my system so I'm looking for PCIe DVB tuners - this model sounds good: http://www.gta-ltd.co.uk/TV_PCIe_Dual_Cards.html But I can't find anything about it's linux support. Does anyone know if it will work, or if it doesn't if

Re: [linux-dvb] (maybe) new working device : HVR1100 + saa7134 correctdiff

2006-10-23 Thread Steven Toth
Tom, Isn't the tuner labelled as HVR-1110? (Not HVR1100-revX) Where i can find this information ? On my original box, i see : HVR 1100 modèle 1108 see attachment. Please ignore the numbering on the box The label on the tuner can should say WinTV-HVR-1110 model# 67019

Re: [linux-dvb] it's a 1110 card .

2006-10-23 Thread Steven Toth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven Toth a écrit : Tom, Isn't the tuner labelled as HVR-1110? (Not HVR1100-revX) Where i can find this information ? On my original box, i see : HVR 1100 modèle 1108 see attachment. Please ignore the numbering

Re: [linux-dvb] HVR 1110 works with 2.6.17.13,v4l-dvb and modprobe -v saa3174 card=101 modprobe -v saa3174_dvb

2006-10-25 Thread Steven Toth
I have it working in DVB-T (haven't tried analogue though) with the following: kernel: 2.6.17.13 http://2.6.17.13 (with dvb/v4l stuff compiled as modules) v4l-dvb:Latest (as of 2006-10-24) modprobe -v saa3174 card=101 modprobe -v saa3174_dvb yes

[linux-dvb] Calling all non-developers

2006-10-25 Thread Steven Toth
Hi, This is not a job offer. However... I'm trying to find a reliable person to document the Hauppauge related areas of the linuxtv.org wiki. Specifically, I really want to present clear and concise documentation area for installing, configuring and using Hauppauge products with mainstream

Re: [linux-dvb] nova-t 500 remote status?

2006-10-27 Thread Steven Toth
Any update on this? Is the hardware spec for the remote input available for this card? Try search the archive. I sent an email to the list a few weeks ago describing how the firmware message passing works. Regards, Steve ___ linux-dvb

Re: [linux-dvb] nova-t 500 remote status?

2006-10-27 Thread Steven Toth
Steven Toth wrote: Any update on this? Is the hardware spec for the remote input available for this card? Try search the archive. I sent an email to the list a few weeks ago describing how the firmware message passing works. Oops, my mistake. The email I was referring

Re: [linux-dvb] Has someone includedhttp://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/multiproto in another repo ?

2007-02-20 Thread Steven Toth
Gregoire Favre wrote: Hello :-) Thank to the tip on #v4l I try to include the info for the HVR-4000 into another repo. I have installed kdiff3 but I still found it hard. I tried this : hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb cd v4l-dvb hg pull http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/multiproto hg merge

Re: [linux-dvb] Has someoneincludedhttp://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/multiproto in another repo ?

2007-02-21 Thread Steven Toth
Robert Longbottom wrote: On Tue, February 20, 2007 8:58 pm, Steven Toth wrote: Manu Abraham wrote: We should have a new HVR4000 repository under stoth sometime over the next couple of days. Regards, Steve Will this include HVR3000 support as well? Because the HVR3000 repository

Re: R: [linux-dvb] How to handle multiple frontends?

2007-03-01 Thread Steven Toth
Nico Sabbi wrote: Ralph Metzler wrote: In the HVR3000 case, do both frontends then use the same demux0? So, if one can open only one at the same time, both should use demux0? please, NO! it will be a hell to support in applications. Please, do it simple and bind frontendN to demuxN

[linux-dvb] HVR-4000 DVB-S2 firmware

2007-03-01 Thread Steven Toth
I can't post the actual firmware for the part. However, if you need the firmware for the HVR-4000 under Linux... ftp://167.206.143.11/outgoing/Oxford/88x_2_117_24275_1_INF.zip Extract the zip and grab the firmware with dd: dd if=hcw88bda.sys of=dvb-fe-cx24116.fw skip=81768 bs=1 count=32522

Re: [linux-dvb] [RFC] Reviewed development procedures DVBMaintainer

2007-03-09 Thread Steven Toth
That someone fucks up and talks bullshit, that's to be expected from a human being. But that's something entirely different than malice. In January 2006 I got told that I should implement the xc3028 just as all other external tuner modules are implemented without a tuner-core

Re: [linux-dvb] [Fwd: Re: New Hauppauge Board] requires multiproto

2007-03-10 Thread Steven Toth
Will Tatam wrote: I was directed to http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/multiproto via an off-list message but this tree is 6 months out of date and does not compile for me under 2.6.19 Why was this branch not rolled back into the main trunk ? Manu, How are the multiproto patches going? I'm

Re: [linux-dvb] WinTV HVR-1300 MCE edition not working

2007-03-10 Thread Steven Toth
Manfred Haelters wrote: Hello, I've received a HVR-1300 MCE edition. However, I'm unable to get it working. On boot time everything looks ok: it detects the correct board (see below in the dmesg). However, the moment I try to run e.g . the radio, I get these messages: tda9887 2-0043: i2c

Re: [linux-dvb] [Fwd: Re: New Hauppauge Board] requires multiproto

2007-03-11 Thread Steven Toth
Will Tatam wrote: Manu Abraham wrote: On 3/10/07, Steven Toth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will Tatam wrote: I was directed to http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/multiproto via an off-list message but this tree is 6 months out of date and does not compile for me under 2.6.19 Why

Re: [linux-dvb] [Fwd: Re: New Hauppauge Board] requires multiproto

2007-03-12 Thread Steven Toth
Will Tatam wrote: Steven Toth wrote: Will Tatam wrote: Manu Abraham wrote: On 3/10/07, Steven Toth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will Tatam wrote: I was directed to http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/multiproto via an off-list message but this tree is 6

Re: [linux-dvb] HVR4000 Support

2007-03-13 Thread Steven Toth
Bob wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 14:34, Steven Toth wrote: Hi, I've created a new tree based on the current mainline v4l/dvb tree, Manu's multiproto patches and the HVR400 specific patches. It can be found here http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/hvr4000 I don't have any immediate hardware

Re: [linux-dvb] fmd1216 integration

2007-03-14 Thread Steven Toth
I've been told that the fmd1216 uses the TUA6034. But in this case it doesn't really matter, all these I2C PLLs work this way. I have an 11 year old datasheet for a Philips tuner, and it's the same way. Ack I'd like to proceed this way: - first i correct the bug in the sleep function. -

Re: [linux-dvb] fmd1216 integration

2007-03-14 Thread Steven Toth
That shouldn't make a difference. If the tuner is different enough that it needs a different configuration, then it will just need to be added as a new tuner type. Shouldn't make any difference to existing users of the fmd1216me. Of course I'm sure the card makers will switch tuners without

Re: [linux-dvb] WinTV HVR-1300 MCE edition not working

2007-03-16 Thread Steven Toth
Manfred Haelters wrote: I've about tried everything possible, but I'm unable to get the fm-radio working (analog TV and dvb-T is working however). I'm still getting these messages in my dmesg all the time the gnomeradio is running: [ 1678.576580] tda9887 2-0043: i2c i/o error: rc == -121

Re: [linux-dvb] HVR4000 Support

2007-03-16 Thread Steven Toth
Darron Broad wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gregoire Favre wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:43:01PM +, Darron Broad wrote: Hi Greg. ... Hello, just compiled hvr-4000 repo with http://dev.kewl.org/tmp/hvr4000/stoth/cx24116.diff and I still can't tune, neither rmmod

Re: [linux-dvb] HVR4000 Support

2007-03-16 Thread Steven Toth
Darron Broad wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven Toth wrote: Hi Steve. Darron Broad wrote: ... Has anyone had a chance to try the stoth/hvr4000 tree after the recent fixes? It's certainly going through the correct motioned for tuning now. (I don't have a feed available

Re: [linux-dvb] HVR-4000: questions and status of driver?

2007-03-17 Thread Steven Toth
What is the status of the driver, I saw that a S2-firmware were posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] quite recently and http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/hvr4000 +seems to have been updated quite recently. It's currently being developed, the hvr4000 tree is the best place to find any recent patches.

Re: [linux-dvb] WinTV HVR-1300 MCE edition not working

2007-03-17 Thread Steven Toth
modprobe failed with: FATAL: Error inserting cx88_dvb (/lib/modules/2.6.20-11-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dvb.ko): No such device Could be a GPIO issue which I could look into. Let me know the the answer to the above question. I'm running AMD64 on Ubuntu (both

Re: [linux-dvb] HVR4000 Support diseq success

2007-03-18 Thread Steven Toth
Uwe Schmeling wrote: Manu Abraham wrote: On 3/18/07, Christophe Thommeret [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In BC mode only we need a the identifier. I think S2 would be a logical and valid choice. Or do you think S2BC, for S2 Backward Compat ? the shorter the better :) Cool,

Re: [linux-dvb] HVR4000 Support

2007-03-20 Thread Steven Toth
Gregoire Favre wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:30:25PM +, Darron Broad wrote: Hello :-) ok. sorry for the regression Why ? Thanks for trying !!! i have made one more attempt, hopefully restoring 50% of your channels. Well, now, still with : for i in `seq 1 12`;do

Re: [linux-dvb] HVR4000 status

2007-03-21 Thread Steven Toth
will wrote: I am also playing with that repo and am able to get a picture so something is amiss here. I can't assume what it is but please try using szap and mplayer to diagnose if there is a problem rather than using other tools. I gave it a go using szap and mplayer still the same

Re: [linux-dvb] HVR4000 status

2007-03-23 Thread Steven Toth
Don't forget the -r arg to szap. Steve I was missing the -r thanks for the hint. Sorry to miss such an obvious thing, 1st time using DVB. Good. I'm still curious about how you were able to do the I2C snooping under M$, is it a secret or does it involve a proper I2C bus

Re: [linux-dvb] HVR4000 status

2007-03-23 Thread Steven Toth
will wrote: For a dirt cheap I2C sniffer, when busses run less than 100KHz, use this: http://warmcat.com/milksop/cheapi2c.html Regards, Steve Thanks very much for this, I've often wondered how well they work, seems like must be pretty good if you've been able to get this and other

Re: [linux-dvb] Hauppauge WinTV Nova-HD-S2

2007-07-20 Thread Steven Toth
Marvin Hankley wrote: Good morning, ladies gents! I've just received a new Hauppauge WinTV Nova-HD-S2 from Germany which is Hauppauge's new budget DVB-S2 card. I was wondering if there are any plans to support this card in the driver, whether just for DVB-S or for DVB-S2 also? Here, you

Re: [linux-dvb] Hauppauge WinTV Nova-HD-S2

2007-07-24 Thread Steven Toth
Gregoire Favre wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 12:11:25PM -0400, Steven Toth wrote: Here, you should try this first: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/hvr4000/ Please post all support questions to this mailing list. Any hope to have an updated repo which would compil against recent

Re: [linux-dvb] Hauppauge Nova-T 500 (Diversity)

2007-07-30 Thread Steven Toth
Patrick Boettcher wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Janne Grunau wrote: On Monday 30 July 2007 18:35:18 Patrick Boettcher wrote: If you have such a card we can try to make it work. There are already cards out there. Hauppauge official name seems to be Nova-TD 500 We need

Re: [linux-dvb] Hauppauge WinTV Nova-HD-S2

2007-07-31 Thread Steven Toth
Gregoire Favre wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 03:44:37PM -0400, Steven Toth wrote: I tend to grab Manu's stuff and merge against that. The multiproto changes are the biggest by far. The patches specific to the hvr4000 are trivial by comparison. I thought I'd done 2.6.21 a couple

Re: [linux-dvb] SAA7160/2

2007-08-01 Thread Steven Toth
Manu Abraham wrote: Hi All, After a bit of talks with NXP, they stated that if shown enough of a user base (future business forecast) for the SAA7160 / SAA7162 PCIe chipset, they would take into consideration, an investment into support, such that the chips can be better supported. ie, i

[linux-dvb] Xceive XC5000 silicon tuner

2007-08-02 Thread Steven Toth
Hi, I'm probably going to write a GPL driver for the Xceive XC5000. Looking at the I2C traffic the API is pretty simple. I'd like to avoid duplication so if anyone else is already working on a driver then please email me privately. Regards, Steve

Re: [linux-dvb] Merging hvr3000 into main branch

2007-08-03 Thread Steven Toth
CityK wrote: Emilio Castellano wrote: I've been using steve's branch for hauppauge hvr3000 for a while.I'd like to know if somebody knows when it'll be commited steve's branch with dvb-s support to the main branch. As I believe that the hvr-3000 is fairly similar

Re: [linux-dvb] New DViCO PCI-Express card.

2007-08-06 Thread Steven Toth
Shannon Wynter wrote: G'day all. What do you think my chances of getting the FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express working? Do you know which demodulators they're using? If we already have demodulator drivers then getting some basic support for the board into linux would only take a few days,

Re: [linux-dvb] New DViCO PCI-Express card.

2007-08-06 Thread Steven Toth
Michael Krufky wrote: Steven Toth wrote: Shannon Wynter wrote: G'day all. What do you think my chances of getting the FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express working? Do you know which demodulators they're using? If we already have demodulator drivers then getting some basic

Re: [linux-dvb] New DViCO PCI-Express card.

2007-08-06 Thread Steven Toth
CityK wrote: Steven Toth wrote: LGH064F I take it this is the demod. Is a datasheet available for that? That's the NIM ... it utilizes the LG DT3303 demodulator for digital (and TDA9887 demod for analog) Ahh. Hmm, the picture of the board doesn't show a NIM though

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-S2 support

2007-08-06 Thread Steven Toth
Nicolas Will wrote: Guys, The HVR4000 looks good on paper, but activity in not heavy, and it has that design flow that prevents it from being real useful (cannot do T and S at the same time). So I am looking for a dedicated DVB-S2 only solution in order to expand my HTPC. So what about

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-S2 support

2007-08-06 Thread Steven Toth
Michael Krufky wrote: Steven Toth wrote: Nicolas Will wrote: Guys, The HVR4000 looks good on paper, but activity in not heavy, and it has that design flow that prevents it from being real useful (cannot do T and S at the same time). So I am looking for a dedicated DVB-S2 only

Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-S2 support

2007-08-06 Thread Steven Toth
Manu Abraham wrote: On 8/6/07, Steven Toth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My goal is to get basic hvr4000 DVB-S/S2 support merged first (after multiproto is merged), then follow that with the 'multiple frontend on a single bus' HVR3000 patches, thereby enabling DVB-T/S and S2 all in one go

Re: [linux-dvb] New DViCO PCI-Express card.

2007-08-07 Thread Steven Toth
Shannon Wynter wrote: Michael Krufky wrote: Michael Krufky wrote: Steven Toth wrote: Shannon Wynter wrote: G'day all. What do you think my chances of getting the FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express working? Do you know

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] add device node locking possibility to dvbcore

2007-08-09 Thread Steven Toth
Markus Rechberger wrote: Following patch adds a rather primitive way to temporary lock dvb devicenodes, this can be useful for hybrid devices which use the video4linux framework for the analogue TV part and the dvb framework for digital TV if only one mode can be accessed at a time.

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] add device node locking possibility to dvbcore

2007-08-09 Thread Steven Toth
Markus Rechberger wrote: On 8/9/07, Steven Toth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markus Rechberger wrote: Following patch adds a rather primitive way to temporary lock dvb devicenodes, this can be useful for hybrid devices which use the video4linux framework for the analogue TV part

Re: [linux-dvb] source example for non-pci/non-usb dvb card

2007-08-13 Thread Steven Toth
Gery wrote: i have another proprietary bus for it. timecop wrote: How do you plan to send the actual mpeg transport stream? I2C isn't exactly fast. On 8/14/07, Gery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am trying to implement dvb-s card which uses only i2c and neither based pci, nor usb.

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] add device node locking possibility to dvbcore

2007-08-14 Thread Steven Toth
Markus Rechberger wrote: On 8/9/07, Steven Toth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markus Rechberger wrote: On 8/9/07, Steven Toth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markus Rechberger wrote: Following patch adds a rather primitive way to temporary lock dvb devicenodes, this can

Re: [linux-dvb] Signal can't be locked using mt2131

2007-08-15 Thread Steven Toth
lwtbenben wrote: Hello everyone I am now using mt2131 tuner to lock the digital tv signal, but it seems always lose lock when I set the channel. Do you have any advice? I'm using the mt2131 reliably (paired with the s5h1409 demod) for ATSC on a number of different boards, it's

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] add device node locking possibility to dvbcore

2007-08-15 Thread Steven Toth
Steven Toth wrote: Markus Rechberger wrote: On 8/9/07, Steven Toth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markus Rechberger wrote: On 8/9/07, Steven Toth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markus Rechberger wrote: Following patch adds a rather

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-08-17 Thread Steven Toth
If it was not by Markus' effort, I couldn't use my Xceive based board, so I support his initiative. And as far as I know, he's the only programmer working on this specific tuner. To sum up: there's no time to waste. Linux needs more code and less discussion. Code

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