[mythtv-users] Ceton Infinitv USB issues

[Krys Allen]

Hey, if your still having issues i have a ceton usb installed and working
with MythTV... Ron actually got me up and running. I would be glad to help.
I didn't read all the way through the email chain, but i know the part I
had problems with was I wasn't starting the infinitv service that gets
installed with the driver. Are you starting that service? Let me know if
you still need help or if you got it running, I am currently battling
trying to get commercial cutting working myself.


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:

> 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
>
> From past experience, I'd tend to lean towards #2. But try out the
> above steps and let me know how it goes and we can go from there.
>
>
> --
> Ron Frazier
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