DVB Software

Carpy · 21 Oct 2009 at 18:58

just been given an old wintv dvb-s card and im looking at using it in linux

any pointers on which software package i should use im a newbie user so really looking for a simple solution with epg and recording

any advice/pointers would be great

Carpy · 21 Oct 2009 at 19:40

cheers installed it and working fine using kaffeine ...pretty happy apart from the lack of epg for recording unless im missing something ??

also had a read of myth and that went over my head ....

cheers for that site

Carpy · 22 Oct 2009 at 13:16

mythbuntu

IS it worth waiting for 9.10 or 9.4 will be fine i

handy link for that xml bookmarked it for future

Carpy · 23 Oct 2009 at 13:44

right i installed the lastest version 9.10rc all went well in the install untill it come to the setup of myth ...for some strange reason the dvb-s card aint being seen ....
now i know the card works as i had it running fine via pclinuxos using kaffeine

so this leads me to enable it in ubuntu and this is where i fall over as i aint got a clue on how to do this ...

any body got any pointers for doing this please

Carpy · 23 Oct 2009 at 18:19

hi

here is some info i have gathered

linux:~$ dmesg | grep -i dvb

[ 13.207729]saa7146: register extension 'dvb'.
[ 13.207823] dvb 0000:02:07.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 13.207928] dvb 0000:02:07.0: firmware: requesting dvb-ttpci-01.fw
[ 13.331055] dvb-ttpci: could not load firmware, file not found: dvb-ttpci-01.fw
[ 13.331065] dvb-ttpci: usually this should be in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware or /lib/firmware
[ 13.331070] dvb-ttpci: and can be downloaded from http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/firmware/
[ 13.331129] dvb 0000:02:07.0: PCI INT A disabled

now i went to that link and there is a page full of fw little confused as to which 1 and how

Carpy · 23 Oct 2009 at 19:13

right i think ive got the right fw just need to know where to put it as i aint got /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware or /lib/firmware do i create 1 of these dir or should there been 1 already created :confused:

Carpy · 24 Oct 2009 at 12:12

well i gave up with this ...went back and installed pclinuxos and every thing is working fine again :confused:

surprised ubuntu couldnt detect the card ....

might have a go at installing myth on top of this distro later