[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie: Getting a picture with Skystar2

[Bill Eldridge]

David Kuehling wrote: "Bill" == Bill Eldridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: <Newbie zone> I have a Skystar 2 installed & driver found (skystar2.o and mt312). scan doesn't work right, but with "szap -r ZDF" I get signal and a decent snr, and a ber of 0. When I do mplayer - < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 I get nothing, mplayer just says Playing - Reading from stdin... Looks like MPlayer gets no data from the dvb device. Try recording the stream to harddisk: cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > test.mpg Does nothing, empty file. If the file test.mpg doesn't fill up, something is wrong with your setup. Also try "mplayer dvb://ZDF" optionally with a huge -cache. mplayer doesn't like the dvb:// option, even though I just recompiled it to include dvb, with no errors. Anyway, I'm guessing the biggest issue is I probably have the card working fine, but just no digital signal off the LNB. Not sure how to verify.