Nick Bright wrote:
> Nick Bright wrote:
>   
>> Greetings,
>>
>>  I've got a WinTV HVR-1600, and I've gotten the cx18 driver to load but 
>> I'm not able to get it to tune any digital channels. On the analog side 
>> of the card with v4l, I do get video when doing "cat /dev/video1 > 
>> test.mpg" but the quality is VERY poor. In MythTV backend setup using 
>> the channel scanner on DVB0, the tuner is unable to lock any channels 
>> (it should pick up ~10 channels).
>>
>> This is on a Pentium 4 model 603 (3Ghz HT), i915G chipset, with the 
>> latest cx18 driver as of 7/10/08 at 23:41 CST. OS is MythBuntu 8.04LTS, 
>> with all updates applied.
>>
>> The card is loading properly, from what I can tell:
>> [   55.550747] cx18-0: Initializing card #0
>> [   55.550751] cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card
>> [   55.550778] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, 
>> low) -> IRQ 22
>> [   55.550793] cx18-0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 
>> (was 32)
>> [   55.551038] cx18-0: cx23418 revision 01010000 (B)
>> [   55.733257] tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 74041, rev C6B2, serial# 
>> 2720263
>> [   55.733262] tveeprom 1-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-29-82-07
>> [   55.733265] tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is TCL M2523_5N_E (idx 112, 
>> type 50)
>> [   55.733268] tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
>> [   55.733271] tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is CX23418 (idx 38)
>> [   55.733273] tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is CX23418 (idx 31)
>> [   55.733276] tveeprom 1-0050: has no radio, has IR receiver, has IR 
>> transmitter
>> [   55.733278] cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600
>> [   55.733280] cx18-0: VBI is not yet supported
>> [   55.841794] tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1)
>> [   55.841864] cs5345 1-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0)
>> [   55.843326] tuner-simple 2-0061: creating new instance
>> [   55.843330] tuner-simple 2-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N)
>> [   55.844021] cx18-0: Disabled encoder IDX device
>> [   55.844061] cx18-0: Registered device video1 for encoder MPEG (2 MB)
>> [   55.844066] DVB: registering new adapter (cx18)
>> [   55.937293] MXL5005S: Attached at address 0x63
>> [   55.937300] DVB: registering frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB 
>> Frontend)...
>> [   55.937376] cx18-0: DVB Frontend registered
>> [   55.937417] cx18-0: Registered device video2 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
>> [   55.937452] cx18-0: Registered device video3 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
>> [   55.937456] cx18-0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge HVR-1600
>> [   55.937501] cx18:  End initialization
>>
>> The DVB scan utility just shows this:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scan 
>> /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/atsc/us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256
>>  
>>
>> scanning 
>> /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/atsc/us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256
>> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
>>  >>> tune to: 57000000:QAM_256
>> WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
>>
>> With the same error reported for every channel. I don't know if my cable 
>> system is actually QAM64 though, and there's not a scan template for 
>> QAM64. I also tried the MythTV scanner with every combination of 
>> frequency table, starting frequency, and QAM mode. None resulted in any 
>> channels found - it's like the cable isn't even plugged in (but yes, it 
>> is, and I have replaced it *twice* so it's extremely unlikely to be a 
>> wiring problem).
>>   
>>     
> I must confess I only waited a few minutes and assumed it would give 
> this error for every channel (since the mythtv scanner wasn't showing 
> anything), but shortly after sending this the 25 minute process of 
> scanning ended, with this information displayed:
>
> dumping lists (26 services)
> [018a]:483000000:QAM_256:1984:1985:394
> [00b5]:483000000:QAM_256:0:2049:181
> [0154]:483000000:QAM_256:0:2113:340
> [0263]:483000000:QAM_256:0:2177:611
> [025d]:483000000:QAM_256:0:2241:605
> [00b9]:483000000:QAM_256:0:2305:185
> [00be]:483000000:QAM_256:0:2369:190
> [00bf]:483000000:QAM_256:0:2433:191
> [0142]:483000000:QAM_256:2497:2496:322
> [00c0]:483000000:QAM_256:0:2561:192
> [0260]:483000000:QAM_256:0:2689:608
> [00cf]:483000000:QAM_256:0:2753:207
> [012d]:483000000:QAM_256:0:2817:301
> [0189]:483000000:QAM_256:2880:2881:393
> [025c]:483000000:QAM_256:0:2625:604
> [0137]:489000000:QAM_256:0:1985:311
> [00b7]:489000000:QAM_256:0:2049:183
> [013a]:489000000:QAM_256:2115:2113:314
> [00b8]:489000000:QAM_256:0:2177:184
> [013c]:489000000:QAM_256:2242:2240:316
> [0259]:489000000:QAM_256:2304:2305:601
> [00c1]:489000000:QAM_256:0:2369:193
> [0144]:489000000:QAM_256:2433:2432:324
> [00c3]:489000000:QAM_256:0:2497:195
> [00c8]:489000000:QAM_256:0:2561:200
> [0133]:489000000:QAM_256:2625:2624:307
> Done.
>
> To be honest... I don't know what this means. Apparently it was able to 
> lock some channels, but what they are, if they are encrypted, I have no 
> idea. Since MythTV isn't seeing them, I don't know how to tell another 
> program to tune the card to one of those channels and copy it to a file 
> so I can try to view the output in something like Mplayer.
>
> I'll keep tinkering though....
>   
azap -r [00b7]
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
tuning to 489000000 Hz
video pid 0x0000, audio pid 0x0801
status 00 | signal 0190 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 |
status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 |
status 1f | signal 011a | snr 011a | ber 0000224f | unc 0000224f | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 011a | snr 011a | ber 00000001 | unc 00000001 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 07 | signal 011b | snr 011b | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 |
status 1f | signal 011b | snr 011b | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 011b | snr 011b | ber 00000002 | unc 00000002 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 011b | snr 011b | ber 00000001 | unc 00000001 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK

(continues, with various numbers)

however, after cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > test.mpg trying to play the 
file with mplayer yeilds:

Playing test.mpg.
TS file format detected.
NO VIDEO! NO AUDIO! NO SUBS (yet)!
No stream found.
Exiting...
> Thanks.
>   
>> I'm not sure if this is an issue with the driver, or I'm just not 
>> getting something right. This is the first time I've tried to use an 
>> ATSC/QAM card with Linux. It may be worth noting that there is also a 
>> PVR-150 installed in this machine, and it is working absolutely perfectly.
>>
>> I'd appreciate any suggestions for things to try. My goal is to get 
>> unencrypted QAM channels to be available to MythTV.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advice.
>>
>>  - Nick
>>
>>
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