Patrick Boettcher wrote: > Hi Malc, > > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Malc wrote: > >> The signal to the box is good, (checked with another Nova T pci card), >> >> The USB box seems to install ok (see kernel below), but I cannot get >> scan or tzap to work... It seems to find the first multiplex, but not >> the rest (see trace below) >> >> Is it something to do with the "will use the device's hw PID >> filter.", if so how do I use it? or have I done something wrong here > > >> May 3 21:34:37 firebird kernel: dvb-usb: MAC address: 00:0d:fe:02:45:d5 > > > Btw. is this MAC address correct? (see the bottom of your box). > Reading this MAC address is just a guess in the driver. > >> initial transponder 754166670 0 3 9 1 0 0 0 >> >>>>> tune to: >>>> >> WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0010 > > > This is because the PID filter is in use. For this box I needed to > have 4096 bytes URB buffers (for some reason smaller ones crashed my > system). > When only one pid is filtered (especially section PIDs such as NIT > 0x0010) the URBs will return very lately (because they won't get > filled enough). > > A solution sometimes is to raise the filter-timeout by saying: > > dvbscan -5 > Ok... the -5 option gives me a full list of channels (Same as I get with the PCI card!).. excellent! >> ......#./tzap "BBC ONE" >> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' >> reading channels from file '/root/.tzap/channels.conf' >> tuning to 754166670 Hz >> video pid 0x0258, audio pid 0x0259 > > > Wow, that is strange. Can you please paste the line of the > channels.conf for this channel? Doh! the problem was an out of date channels.conf (and therefore wrong pids! - read the output!).... with the extended scan I've been to confirm all the channels.... thanks for the prompt help. Now to set it up in MythTV! -malc- btw. The instructions were pretty straightforward... you might want to remind people to ensure that hotplug is installed (I had to apt-get install them). Beyond that, I just compiled and installed! > > regards > Patrick. > > -- > Mail: patrick.boettcher@xxxxxxx > WWW: http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/
