On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:32:44 -0500, Steve Bower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:13:03 -0600, Lane Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Last night I got my new Air2PC HDTV card installed, and compiled the > > new 2.6.11-rc4 kernel to go along with it. > > > > Does anyone know how to test the card prior to setting it up in Myth? > > > > Basically, I want to do a test capture to make sure it's working. > > Similar to doing a `cat /dev/video0 > tmp.mpg` with a PVR-250. > > I've been playing with the DVB drivers for the HD2000 (pchdtv), and this is > what I did: > > - make sure the DVB driver loads properly and sees the card (will be different > for you than it was for me) > > - get and install the dvb-apps packages from linuxtv.org > > - create a channels.conf file for your area (see the > util/szap/channels-conf/atsc subdir); I didn't have XML/XPath.pm handy, so I > fudged one manually with the frequency table included in the perl script. > Make sure to get the pids right (decimal) in the last two fields. > > - run "azap -r channel", where channel is one of the channel names you defined > in your channels.conf. Leave it running while you: > > - "dd if=/dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 of=testfile bs=1M" to create your file. > > I'm currently working on getting my datadirect guide data to fill in the > channels that the myth dvb scan identified. > > Good luck! > Steve (aka [EMAIL PROTECTED], where I deleted this message too quickly!)
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, I'm not getting any data. Here's what I've got. Any pointers or tips would be greatly appreciated. $ sudo azap -r KARE using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' tuning to 599000000 Hz video pid 0x0000, audio pid 0x0000 status 1f | signal 5ce0 | snr 5ade | ber 00000000 | unc 00000005 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 00 | signal 6eb0 | snr 589a | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 1f | signal 9500 | snr 5bd2 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000001 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 8580 | snr 5ba6 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000005 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 9ee0 | snr 5b18 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000005 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 00 | signal 7f40 | snr 5a4e | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal b3c0 | snr 5d0e | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 1f | signal 90a0 | snr 5be6 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000005 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 00 | signal 6040 | snr 5ac2 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal b490 | snr 5d36 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal 8a00 | snr 5aee | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 1f | signal 9780 | snr 5bd4 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000005 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 9420 | snr 5c12 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000004 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 8f10 | snr 5bbc | ber 00000000 | unc 00000004 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 9570 | snr 5bd6 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000005 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 00 | signal 71d0 | snr 58a2 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | Meanwhile, in another terminal, I did this: $ sudo dd if=/dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 of=testfile.mpg bs=1M testfile.mpg gets created, but it stays at size zero. Thanks, Lane -- Meetup with other Myth users! http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MUG
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