[mythtv-users] Help getting KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T to work

Joacim J jocke4news at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 11:30:11 EST 2005


Hi,

I hope you all had a very nice christmas.

Have anybody a clue regarding my question below?

Best Regards
Joacim J


On 12/27/05, Joacim J <jocke4news at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I never get udev to set the permissions correctly. Now I have the
> following in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>
> # START DVB-T card
> /sbin/modprobe --remove cx88_blackbird
> /sbin/modprobe cx88_dvb
>
> sleep 5
> chmod o+rw /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0
> chmod o+rw /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
> chmod o+rw /dev/dvb/adapter0/net0
> chmod o+rw /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
> ## END DVB-T
>
> It seems to work fine but I would have been more satisfied without that "hack".
>
> To the following issue... I have managed to scan the channels and
> created a channels.config and have inserted the data in 'dvb_channel'
> and 'dvb_pids' which I think is correct. I had to made it the hard way
> since the mythtv scanning finds the channels but doesn't insert them
> in the tables.
>
> When starting mythbackend I get this in the console:
>
> [root at HTPC ~]# mythbackend
> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.524 New DB connection, total: 1
> Starting up as the master server.
> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.534 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server
> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.535 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.538 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started
> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.567 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend Zarlink
> MT352 DVB-T.
> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.569 New DB connection, total: 3
> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.570 DVB#0 ERROR - Could not find dvb tuning
> parameters for transport 0
> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.570 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options
> for channel 19.
> 2005-12-27 23:21:37.575 New DB scheduler connection
>
> and when start "Watch TV" I get:
>
> 2005-12-27 23:22:30.982 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2005-12-27 23:22:31.023 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully
> (using PS mode).
> 2005-12-27 23:22:31.024 DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your
> channel setup.
> 2005-12-27 23:22:32.043 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-12-27 23:22:33.047 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-12-27 23:22:34.051 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
>
> I have inserted the information as:
> # SVT1:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:1019:1018:1010
> INSERT INTO `dvb_channel` VALUES (19, 1010, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> 626000000, 'a', NULL, '2/3', NULL, NULL, 'qam_64', '8', '1/2', '8',
> '1/8', 'n', NULL);
> INSERT INTO `dvb_pids`          VALUES (19, 1019, 'v', '');
> INSERT INTO `dvb_pids`          VALUES (19, 1018, 'a', '');
>
> What can be wrong?
>
> PS. I can watch the channels using XINE and channel.conf. DS
> --
> Regards
> Joacim
>


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Regards
Joacim


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