I have been having a lot of trouble trying to make DVB-T cards work properly with dvb tools etc. for use with mythtv....
I have 2 cards, for which EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM applies to either (using only 1 card in machine at any time)... One card is an (apparently supported) V-STREAM dvb-T card with a CX23883-19 IC... The other card is an "LR6650" which apparnetly work according to page:- http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/leek/ukdvb.php I have been using a gentoo system, and have tried various kernel builds with no success. I have used the bytesex.org kenrel patch to make such kernels in the first place.... The kernel I have made work, and the modules loaded etc. show that the card has been detected and the FRONTEND has been registered okay (slightly different messages with the 2 slightly-different-cards). In any case, after (I'm sure) loading all the right modules etc... from reading various pages/information -- I build linuxtv.org 'dvb-apps' CVS version fine and use the "dvbscan" program on the dvb-t/uk-Mendip frequency/channel configuration... This DVBSCAN usuall succeeds, occasionally failing with a timeout, and produces a list of channels on the MUX's available, successfully which shows me that my DVB-T card must be working mostly. I used the output of this scan redirected [or "tee"'ed] to create an output channel-list file... I then used tzap with -c parameter pointing to my channel-list-config-file, the channel name in double-quotes, and some other parameter (something like "-xa" or similar -- to setup card/driver ready for recieving by another program... Can't remember the exact parameters now. This quickly gives a few lines of FE_HAS_LOCK and exits tzap (which I thought this is supposed to leave the dvr0 device usable when tzap is no longer running). BUT -- I then try to cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 (expecting to recieve all the ""binary rubbish"" on that channel) -- and I get nothing!! I am finding the same problem on both my cards and various different kernels etc... I just can't seem to get it to w0rk! Am I doing something daft here? Any help much appreciated out there.. --S Iremonger, BusinessWebsite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
