[mythtv-users] Ceton Infinitv USB issues

[Ronald Frazier]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:25 PM, michael helmer <micmizer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ronald,
>
> I am fairly certain that the USB drivers are installed correctly. I ran
> through the README and saw no errors. Not sure of anyway to confirm
> everything is fine?
>
> As for the VLC stuff I got this back from Ceton support "try using vlc
> udp://@127.0.0.1:8000" which did not work and I havent heard back from them
> since they made that suggestion.
>
> The last week and an half I have been messing around with using the network
> tuner configuration on a Windows MCE host and trying to share 3 tuners with
> MythTV. Unfortunately this does not work (for me). When using a network
> tuner configuration the local MCE host cannot even record on its own tuner!
> Im at a loss as a colleague of mine has this working and was following the
> same configuration.


In order to test RTP outside of myth, here's my suggestion. I just
tested this with the PCIe version. I'm not certain that this will be
the same for the USB version, but it should be.

1) First download the python client from here:
http://cetoncorp.com/infinitv_support/linux_drivers/

2) cd to the directory you unzipped it to, then run it as follow:

python client.py -i <local ip address> -t <tuner> -c <channel>

Tuner is tuner you want to use (0-3) and channel would be the cable
channel you want to tune. The tricky part here is local ip address.
Note that this is NOT the IP address of the ceton's web interface, but
rather the ip address assigned to the ctn0 network interface (or for
USB ceton, I think the interface is usb0 or something like that). If
you do " ifconfig ctn0" (or " ifconfig usb0"), you can get the local
IP. Also note, that if you have bridging enabled, ctn0/eth0 don't get
an IP, so use the IP address for br0 instead

Once that starts up, it should tell you something like MPEG data going
to 127.0.0.1:8000 and OOB data going to 127.0.0.1:8001.

3) While that is still running, open up another terminal. Run the
following command:

netcat -l -s 127.0.0.1 -p 8000 -u > rtp.mpg

let that run for about 20 seconds and then Ctrl-C to end. You should
now have an rtp.mpg file that is at least several MB in size.

4) now play the video with mplayer:

mplayer rtp.mpg



If that works, then you can move on to trying to get myth configured.
If it doesn't work, then either
1) you have improperly installed the device (if you installed the USB
drivers, and not the PCIe drivers, then I suspect this is unlikely)
2) your cable card is not properly provisioned
3) your cable company forgot tell you that you need a tuning adapter
(but most cable companies don't need these)
4) you have a defective device