Hi all, trying to confirm that it is not a problem related with the USB stick (I guess it isn't since I've seen no messages in the list about that point), I've tried to watch TV from Windows with the same usb stick from Freecom... four hours [CSI Las Vegas, Miami and New York + ads] of high quality TV without any pixelation or degradation :( Trying to do some tests under Linux, I haven't been able to rmmod/insmod in order to prove wether "reinitialization" works: now the module is always in use (showing the same big number: 4294967295, that decreases by one each time I unplug the stick: 4294967294, 4294967293...). That count goes from 0 ant insert time to 4...13... and after that (removal after video pixelation/freeze) it goes to 429496xxx... So now, wat do you think I can do in order to determine where the problem is? The "big" problem is that, besides that strange large number in the usage count of the module, and the: > dvb-usb: recv bulk message failed: -110 > drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: timeout initializing reports messages in dmesg at stick insert time, no other error/waring messages appear anywhere... Sorry for the inconvenience, but it would be great to get this stick working, since it's the third I'm trying (Zaapa, AVermedia Volar, and now Freecom), and I wouldn't like to go back again to the store to return it and try with the last one that remains there (a Hauppauge Stick). I think the guy of the store will kill me :) thanks in advance. Best, Jose On 11/13/06, José Oliver Segura <primijos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all, after seeing that Zaapa is not supported and having some troubles with an AverMedia Volar (which wasn't able to find any channel using the roof antenna, only with the portable antenna - [curious, the Zaapa one worked just the reverse way]), I've been able to get a Freecom dvb usb stick. Things went ok (nice!) at first: downloaded the firmware, compiled & installed code from Mercurial, plug the stick and it's recognized. After that, used scandvb to create channels.conf, OK. I've been able to watch TV using MPlayer with that channels.conf file, great. It works OK, but after sometime (maybe one hour, but is not deterministic), everything goes bad: image starts to goes slowmotion/frozen/pixelated, sound gets crappy, with lot of whistles (of course, audio and video are not synchronized at that point), and I have to close mplayer and start again. At this point, the degradation occurs before, just one or two minutes after the second mplayer starts running. At that point, It cannot be solved just restarting mplayer (neither removing/reinserting the dvb stick). What I've tried is to remove the stick, rmmod dvb_usb_dtt200u and start again, and it seems to work (I mean, it seems I can get an hour of tv..), but after some time all the problems start again. I've noticed, before the first rmmod, that dvb_usb_dtt200u was reported to be used by 4294967293 times (see lsmod output below) :-/ Usually, that number is 4/5 in my case (at the time of writing this, I've not been able to reproduce it, now -regarding that it's not working-, keeps the usage count at 4) Trying to remove "mplayer" from the equation, I've tried to do a test just with stream recording using tzap/cat and generating an mpeg file, and it seems to be the same. Playing it with mplayer shows up that the problem is in the mpeg data, not in mplayer. Is it possible that the driver/frontend has some bug that causes that time/use malfunction? I'll be glad to help if I can. Below comes some information: - OS Fedora Core 6 (kernel 2.6.18 i686 reinstalled after fedora bug installing the 386 kernel) lsusb: Bus 006 Device 006: ID 14aa:0226 AVerMedia (again) or C&E Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 003: ID 05e3:0606 Genesys Logic, Inc. Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 004: ID 067b:3507 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL3507 ATAPI6 Bridge Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 lsmod | grep dvb: dvb_usb_dtt200u 16900 4294967293 dvb_usb 28044 1 dvb_usb_dtt200u dvb_core 83496 1 dvb_usb dvb_pll 18692 1 dvb_usb i2c_core 25537 4 i2c_ec,i2c_i801,dvb_usb,dvb_pll dmesg (filtered): usb 6-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 usb 6-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice dvb-usb: found a 'WideView WT-220U PenType Receiver (Typhoon/Freecom)' in cold state, will try to load a firmware dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-wt220u-fc03.fw' usbcore: registered new driver dvb_usb_dtt200u usb 6-2: USB disconnect, address 5 dvb-usb: generic DVB-USB module successfully deinitialized and disconnected. usb 6-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 usb 6-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice dvb-usb: found a 'WideView WT-220U PenType Receiver (Typhoon/Freecom)' in warm state. dvb-usb: will use the device's hardware PID filter (table count: 15). DVB: registering new adapter (WideView WT-220U PenType Receiver (Typhoon/Freecom)). DVB: registering frontend 0 (WideView USB DVB-T)... input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /class/input/input5 dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 300 msecs. dvb-usb: WideView WT-220U PenType Receiver (Typhoon/Freecom) successfully initialized and connected. dvb-usb: recv bulk message failed: -110 drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: timeout initializing reports input: Digital TV Receiver Digital TV Receiver as /class/input/input6 input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Digital TV Receiver Digital TV Receiver] on usb-0000:03:00.2-2 Error message from Mplayer (either direct playing dvb:// or reading a recorded file): Too many video packets in the buffer: (433 in 8428292 bytes). Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed? For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option. I don't have idea of what other data can I send to help, but if it's needed, just let me know. best, Jose
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