DVB Software

Carpy

Carpy

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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 :)
 
linuxtv.org read the wiki. check the chipset on your card. see if it's supported, if it's supported it's should auto configure at boot if you have the right kernel. Then ther's a whole bunch of software you can use. Everything from cron jobs calling shell scripts, to full blown mythtv installs.
 
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
 
mythbuntu

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

handy link for that xml bookmarked it for future:)
 
it might take them a little while to get 9.10 mythbuntu out as they have to wait for the final ubuntu release before they can finish making changes and finalise their build, but 9.10 WILL come with a new version of mythtv that should have significant improvements.
 
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
 
forget about myth until your card is working outside myth. Then once it's working out side myth, myth should just pick it up no probs.


It's probably missing some kernel modules or something. E.g. my Saa7146 TT1501 and TT3200 both require 2.6.30 (unless I want to compile my own kernel) what does the wiki say about your card.
 
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
 
Ooo. I remember about that now. Good job as I have to do that for my other card.

The numbers after are revisions that fix certain things and you should use the best version for your card. What version that is depends on your card, and possibly even the revision of your card. I rememer when I figured it out last time thinking 'damn that was easy now that I know' but I have forgotten how to find out which file to use. I forsee a few hours of googling ahead of you.

First step is to read the README on that page.
 
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:
 
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
 
Creating one of the mentioned folders and putting the firmware file in there would have probably done the trick as that's where Ubuntu told you it was looking.

Funnily enough I spent an hour this morning setting up a DVB-T usb stick on my MythTV (Mythbuntu) box.

My install already had /lib/firmware populated with loads of files for different types of card so it initialized fine straight away. I then had to manually compile the v4l drivers and reboot.

Once this is done it's just a case of adding it into MythTV and tuning in.

I must admit though MythTV isn't really for the faint hearted. Getting things into a state I was happy with took several hours as I was having to change video output and deinterlacing settings in order to get the best picture / stop flickering and fix an issue that was causing 100% CPU usage. I still need to get the EPG working, something which I'll be looking at tomorrow.

Cheers
 
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