Luis Ochoa wrote: >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? > > frequency, modulation type, video pid, audio pid, something else. None of those channels contains a video pid (0) >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? > > read the video.xml file in mplayer's DOCS dir >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). > >Finally, I found another thread suggesting how to use mplayer, so I do: > >mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 -tskeepbroken -cache 8192 > > > there are easier ways to use mplayer >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 > > ^^^^^^ because of vpid=0 -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Con Tele2 risparmi al telefono e su Internet. Sempre. Clicca qui per conoscere le promozioni Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=3757&d=21-10
