Eduard Bloch writes: > Moin mocm! > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Tuesday, den 19. March 2002: > > > > can anyone read /dev/ost/vdr0 with recent DVB driver versions? If I try > > > to "cat /dev/ost/vdr0" as described in the Nova mini-howtos, I just get > > > no data. No error message, just nothing happens. > > > > > You mean /dev/ost/dvr0, right? > > Err, of course. > > > Did you set the demuxes? > > Uhm, what? Another user gave me a hint with "ntuxzap -e" which made > /dev/ost/dvr0 output some data ;) This could be documented on a good > place.
Yes, ntuxzap sets the demuxes for dvr output (see ntuxzap -h). How to set the demuxes is documented in the API documents. > > But there is the next problem: if I try to make the TS stream useable, > it fails. > > cat /dev/ost/dvr0 | ts2ps 0 0 > bla.mpg It is better to set the PIDs. If you use "0 0" ts2ps tries to find them, but that may not work every time. > > This behaves different, each time when I start it. Either there is > > a) just no data, or > b) the headers seems to be okay (mplayer detects picture- and sound > formats), but the picture is black and sound is absolute silence or > c) the data is binary trash. It is detected as in b), but it's only > noise and crapy picture. > Are you sure you have good reception? Have a look at www.linuxstb.org. There are quite a number of useful tools. Especially for cards without MPEG decoder. Marcus -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
