Hi all, I finally got my FusionHDTV5 Lite working (thanks Mike Krufky, et.al.) and the first thing I wanted to do was trying to find out what digital cable channels I can receive in my house. After doing a lot of reading and a few tests, I have a few questions. I found somewhere here, a list (actually 5 lists) of cable frequencies. I concat'ed them all together and fed them to "atscscan -A2 cable-freq-file" and this found about about 48 services, like: [0003]:639000000:QAM_256:0:145:3 [0002]:639000000:QAM_256:0:81:2 [0002]:651000000:QAM_256:0:2061:2 [0001]:651000000:QAM_256:0:17:1 [0003]:651000000:QAM_256:0:145:3 [0001]:657000000:QAM_256:0:17:1 [0002]:657000000:QAM_256:0:2061:2 [0003]:657000000:QAM_256:0:145:3 My first question is, what does each portion of a line mean? I think the first item is the channel "name" (which atscscan sets to the same as the last item), but what is this number? I know the second entity is the freq, and QAM_256 is of course the modulation, but what are the rest of the numbers? I saved all these to ~/.azap/channels.conf , changed the first item from say [0003] to say "c1" and proceded to try to azap. I wanted to use mplayer, and I read I had to do "azap -r", but don't know why. What does the -r option do? this is what I get: azap -r c1 using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' tuning to 621012500 Hz video pid 0x0000, audio pid 0x0211 status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 0000ffff | status 1f | signal 0000 | snr feb6 | ber 00000000 | unc 0000ffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 0000 | snr feb4 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 0000 | snr febb | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 0000 | snr feba | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 0000 | snr febd | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 0000 | snr febb | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 0000 | snr fec1 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK Looks good by what I've read, if you care to comment on the portions of each individual line, please do so. I know the signal is always zero because the author of the driver is making it so, as he's not happy with the number he's getting from the card/driver (or something like that). I fire up another terminal, and do "dvbtraffic" and this is what I get, although I don't know what to make of these numbers, so please enlighten me. I do know the final 0x2000 PID is the whole TS, but, is the PID here audio PID, video PID? could be both? -PID--FREQ-----BANDWIDTH-BANDWIDTH- 0000 7 p/s 1 kb/s 11 kbit 0010 2413 p/s 443 kb/s 3629 kbit 0011 89 p/s 16 kb/s 133 kbit 0029 23 p/s 4 kb/s 35 kbit 0210 3893 p/s 714 kb/s 5855 kbit 0211 89 p/s 16 kb/s 133 kbit 0229 24 p/s 4 kb/s 37 kbit 0310 3087 p/s 566 kb/s 4642 kbit 0311 89 p/s 16 kb/s 133 kbit 0312 46 p/s 8 kb/s 69 kbit 0329 24 p/s 4 kb/s 37 kbit 1fff 16039 p/s 2944 kb/s 24123 kbit 2000 25827 p/s 4741 kb/s 38845 kbit Finally, I found another thread suggesting how to use mplayer, so I do: mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 -tskeepbroken -cache 8192 and I get: MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.2.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 4) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0. Cache fill: 19.92% (1671168 bytes) Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll TS file format detected. DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -1, PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0 NO VIDEO! AUDIO A52(pid=17) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 0 Opened TS demuxer, audio: 2000(pid 17), video: ffffffff(pid -1)...POS=3008 ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52 Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform a52: CRC check failed! AC3: 3.1 (3f+lfe) 32000 Hz 64.0 kbit/s Using MMX optimized resampler AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/6.25% (ratio: 8000->128000) Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52) ========================================================================== Checking audio filter chain for 32000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 32000Hz/2ch/s16le... AF_pre: 32000Hz/2ch/s16le alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default alsa: 32000 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/43688 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian AO: [alsa] 32000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps) Building audio filter chain for 32000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 32000Hz/2ch/s16le... Video: no video Starting playback... a52: error at resampling a52: CRC check failed! % a52: error at resampling a52: CRC check failed! % a52: CRC check failed! a52: error at resampling a52: CRC check failed! a52: error at resampling alsa-space: xrun of at least 0.032 msecs. resetting stream a52: CRC check failed! a52: error at resampling a52: CRC check failed! a52: error at resampling a52: CRC check failed! a52: error at resampling a52: CRC check failed! a52: error at resampling A: 0.0 (00.0) ??,?% 0% I know most likely the stream is encrypted, but I want to know if I'm going about this the right way, or if I should be more selective as far as picking individual PIDs from the stream, and which programs should I specify these to, etc. Thanks for your help, Luis.
