Re: Genpix driver is broken (no 8psk lock). Here's why how to fix.

2009-10-31 Thread VDR User
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:55 AM, VDR User user@gmail.com wrote: Over a month ago I reported a problem with a change that was made to the Genpix driver which broke 8PSK.  The change limited DVB-S streams to QPSK and 8PSK to DVB-S2.  There are a couple problems with this. First of all

Re: Details about DVB frontend API

2009-10-23 Thread VDR User
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Manu Abraham abraham.m...@gmail.com wrote: Sometime back, (some time in April) i proposed a patch which addressed the issue to scale even those devices which have a weird scale or none. Though based on an older tree of mine, here is the patch again. If it looks

Re: Details about DVB frontend API

2009-10-22 Thread VDR User
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Devin Heitmueller dheitmuel...@kernellabs.com wrote: I could have had this problem solved six months ago for 98% of the community, and instead we are right where we have been since the beginning of the project. This is really a shame too considering the

Re: saa716x compiling problem

2009-10-03 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Beepo / Vanguard be...@vanguard.fi wrote: Hi, You could try http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin To my knowledge there is no working saa716x driver and I certainly wouldn't expect one from that s2-liplianin tree if jusst.de doesn't have a proper one

Genpix driver is broken (no 8psk lock). Here's why how to fix.

2009-09-23 Thread VDR User
Over a month ago I reported a problem with a change that was made to the Genpix driver which broke 8PSK. The change limited DVB-S streams to QPSK and 8PSK to DVB-S2. There are a couple problems with this. First of all, Genpix devices do NOT support DVB-S2 but pretends to for access to 8PSK.

Re: [linux-dvb] Can't tune to DVB-S2 channels on floppydtv

2009-08-23 Thread VDR User
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Norbert Weinholdlinux-...@freakpixel.de wrote: Hi, I have a floppyDTV S2 and I can't tune to dvb-s2 channels while normal dvb-s channel work. Does anyone have a clue where the problem is. I know a few people who have tried dvb-s2 v4l and all of them have had

Re: Linux Plumbers Conference 2009: V4L2 API discussions

2009-08-07 Thread VDR User
It has been months now since the discussion about actually making (a unified) STR/SNR useful. Is this going to be addressed at the conference? It's one of those things that would be greatly useful for users/applications but seemingly has gotten neglected. Regards, Derek -- To unsubscribe from

Re: [linux-dvb] Most stable DVB-S2 PCI Card?

2009-05-24 Thread VDR User
Whoever decided on a $1000 price point for a dual tuner dvb-s2 card needs to be slapped, then fired. That's completely absurd. Period. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at

Re: [linux-dvb] SkyStar HD2 (TwinHan VP-1041/Mantis) S2API support

2009-04-11 Thread VDR User
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Dave Lister foc...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/11 VDR User user@gmail.com: There is a new mantis tree being uploaded at: http://jusst.de/hg/mantis-v4l Please try this tree.  The upload should finish within 2 hours and is using DVB api 5 (aka s2api

Re: [linux-dvb] SkyStar HD2 (TwinHan VP-1041/Mantis) S2API support

2009-04-10 Thread VDR User
There is a new mantis tree being uploaded at: http://jusst.de/hg/mantis-v4l Please try this tree. The upload should finish within 2 hours and is using DVB api 5 (aka s2api). Cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to

Re: The right way to interpret the content of SNR, signal strength and BER from HVR 4000 Lite

2009-03-24 Thread VDR User
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Manu Abraham abraham.m...@gmail.com wrote: From the end user point of view it is not very usefull if he has 2 different cards and application can not show any usefull signal goodness info in a way that would be easy to compare. So I think the attempt to

Re: The right way to interpret the content of SNR, signal strength and BER from HVR 4000 Lite

2009-03-20 Thread VDR User
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Manu Abraham abraham.m...@gmail.com wrote: Well, that said positioning could be explained for those who on't have an understanding on how to do it. Let's assume, currently at position X there is no signal, no frontend LOCK. You can move the antenna to the

Re: The right way to interpret the content of SNR, signal strength and BER from HVR 4000 Lite

2009-03-13 Thread VDR User
Just wanted to comment that I'm glad there is a lot of interest in this. I've heard endless talk confusion on the user end over the years as to the accuracy of the values, or in some cases (as with Genpix adapters for example) where you don't seem to get any useful information. Of course making

Re: Kconfig changes in /hg/v4l-dvb caused dvb_usb_cxusb to stop building

2009-03-09 Thread VDR User
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab mche...@infradead.org wrote: It won't mark they with M, if you keep enabling DVB_FE_CUSTOMISE, since this Kconfig var allows manual override over the frontend modules. Ok, tried again and it's as you said. I assumed the behavior of

Re: [PATCH] dvb-api: update documentation, chapter1

2009-02-26 Thread VDR User
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab mche...@infradead.org wrote: It seems better to say, instead, that Version 4 was suggested, but it weren't completed nor implemented. That's improper. I think you mean, Version 4 was suggested but neither completed, nor implemented. Why

Re: [PATCH] dvb-api: update documentation, chapter1

2009-02-26 Thread VDR User
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:35 AM, VDR User user@gmail.com wrote: It seems better to say, instead, that Version 4 was suggested, but it weren't completed nor implemented. That's improper.  I think you mean, Version 4 was suggested but neither completed, nor implemented. Why do I have

Re: POLL: for/against dropping support for kernels 2.6.22

2009-02-23 Thread VDR User
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Hans Verkuil hverk...@xs4all.nl wrote: Should we drop support for kernels 2.6.22 in our v4l-dvb repository? _: Yes _: No Yes. Optional question: Why: The reasons already stated, those resources could be better used doing other things. Aside of that, of

Re: DVB-API v5 questions and no dvb developer answering ?

2009-02-16 Thread VDR User
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Hans Verkuil hverk...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Monday 16 February 2009 18:48:13 wk wrote: The last week two guys were kindly asking here on the list where to find a written DVB-API v5 documentation, but nobody of the dvb driver community was answering.

Re: DVB-API v5 questions and no dvb developer answering ?

2009-02-16 Thread VDR User
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Devin Heitmueller devin.heitmuel...@gmail.com wrote: As always we continue to welcome patches, including for the documentation. Instead of bitching and moaning, how about you roll up your sleeves and actually help out? Interesting you would suggest people who

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