Re: Mantis driver on TechniSat "CableStar HD 2"
Dear Manu Abraham, In message <1a297b360912271420g154e34a4gab4382de3a316...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > If you can successfully tune and get a valid TS from the DVR device, > you can rule out issues with the card and the driver. > You can verify the functionality of the hardware and driver with the > command line applications from the dvb-apps repository. Thanks, this got me started. The card and the driver is working fine. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time. -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Mantis driver on TechniSat "CableStar HD 2"
Hello Wolfgang, On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > I have problems getting a TechniSat "CableStar HD 2" DVB-C card > running with the latest Mantis driver on a Fedora 12 system (using > their current standard 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE kernel in > combination with the drivers from the http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb > repository). Tests have been done on two different mainboards. > > I can run a channel scan (using kaffeine) perfectly fine, also tuning > to channels appears to work. I see a load of some 1,300 interrupts per > sec when I have kaffeine running and tuned, and it seems there is data > transferred between the card and the application. >From what i understand without much deeper look is that you have a successful LOCK and hence the transfer. > > The problem is: there is no video nor sound. The generic budget DVB cards do not have an onboard hardware decoder and what we have is a DVR device from which the Transport stream is being read out. A Software decoder is used to process the TS. > I have bought this card second-hand on, so I am not really sure if it > is a software issue, or if eventually the hardware is broken. > > > Can anybody recommend a way how to verify the driver or the hardware? > Or can you recommend a specific kernel version the Mantis driver has > been tested against? If you can successfully tune and get a valid TS from the DVR device, you can rule out issues with the card and the driver. You can verify the functionality of the hardware and driver with the command line applications from the dvb-apps repository. Regards, Manu -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Mantis driver on TechniSat "CableStar HD 2"
I have problems getting a TechniSat "CableStar HD 2" DVB-C card running with the latest Mantis driver on a Fedora 12 system (using their current standard 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE kernel in combination with the drivers from the http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb repository). Tests have been done on two different mainboards. I can run a channel scan (using kaffeine) perfectly fine, also tuning to channels appears to work. I see a load of some 1,300 interrupts per sec when I have kaffeine running and tuned, and it seems there is data transferred between the card and the application. The problem is: there is no video nor sound. I have bought this card second-hand on, so I am not really sure if it is a software issue, or if eventually the hardware is broken. Can anybody recommend a way how to verify the driver or the hardware? Or can you recommend a specific kernel version the Mantis driver has been tested against? Any help welcome. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Another megabytes the dust. -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html