Re: FE_HAS_LOCK but no signal

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Thanks Peter. That explains the reason for the 0000 for the signal snr etc.

am i doing something wrong to capture the stream or even play it? is
there an programme that will tell me information on the stream tzap
has connected with? so i can make sure i am actually receiving a valid
mpeg stream .

any ideas so i can pin down the problem would be greatly appreciated.

On 15/03/07, Peter Beutner <p.beutner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Tom Jacobs schrieb:
> i am having problems getting data from my STB
>
> i am using Mythdora as my distro so, i believe this is basically Fedora
> Core 5 with MythTV-0.20 included (and various other required packages).
>
> i have a Hauppauge DEC2000 stb which i am trying to use within mythtv.
> the correct firmware is in /lib/firmware and from dmesg i can see the
> adapter and frontend are both registered.
>
> i can successfully ./scan for available channels and have produced my
> channels.conf file. when i ./tzap i get the following:
>
> [root@mythtv_linux ~]# tzap -r "BBC TWO"
> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
> tuning to 641833330 Hz
> video pid 0x0262, audio pid 0x0263
> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 009c645e |
> status 1f | signal 0000 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 009c645e |
> FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0000 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 009c645e |
> FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0000 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 009c645e |
> FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0000 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 009c645e |
> FE_HAS_LOCK
>
> if i pick different channels the frequency an pids change but i always
> get signal 0000 and a lock.

The driver doesn't report values for signal strength/noise ratio/etc.
Only whether the tuner has locked into a channel or not.

It's a bit misleading that tzap always prints zero here for the other stuff
even though the kernel reports that the driver doesn't support these infos.

> if i try and capture stream using the
> following:
>
> cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > myvideo.mpg
>
> i get a file of zero bytes. if i try and use mplayer or xine they both
> fail too. since this is a stb also i can play a scart cable into it and
> i do see that the channels are being changed when i tzap  but i just
> dont seem to be getting any data back from the stb.
>
> does anyone have any ideas?

hm not really. just to be sure, tzap has to be running(e.g. in another
terminal) while you are trying to capture data from /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0.
(btw. iirc tzap can also directly dump the data into a file by itself)

xine never really worked with this driver for me(for unknown reasons).


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