Hello Holger, Am Donnerstag, 6. M�rz 2003 10:36 schrieb Holger Waechtler:
> > I have bought a Hauppauge DVB-C-card, ... > > Am I with the right mailing list for this kind of problems? > kind of. That is fine. Do you know of a list, which is better suited for my needs? > > What is a "frontend" in this environment? > > The combination of analog tuner and digital demodulator. Ok, that was the backend from my point of view, so I did not understand some things very well. > > Which is the "right" driver to use? I found the cvs at linuxtv.org, I > > have seen, that linux 2.5 contains something very similar and I have seen > > various other drivers, which seem to differ not too much, so that I am a > > bit confused. > > Use the (pre-)release tarballs unless you are explicitly willing to > contribute to development and/or test and debug enw features. I am using linux-dvb-1.0.0-pre2 at the moment. Loading the drivers does work and tuning with czap is working too, but sometimes I have to start czap several times before it locks to the station. Is there a way to test the different hardware-components and the quality of the signal, so that I can tell whether I have incompatible or faulty hardware or just a bad connection? > > Unfortunately it does not work as I wish and I am confused, so I guess I > > need some help to get this to work. > > you probably want to use a real application, not the driver test > programs. Take a look on xawtv instead of the video test program, try > VDR for a real digital video recording application. Browse around in the > web and the mailing list archives for other useful DVB software. As you suggested, I tried xawtv and I got a picture under X11 whenever apps/test/video was showing a picture on my framebuffer-console. I also got kwintv working with its usual problems for displaying images. I was unable to switch the channel using these applications and I do not know, whether I should be able to do so. I still have to test vdr. Thanks for your help Karl -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
