Hello, I'm having problems tuning my Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD USB DVB receiver. Scanning for channels works fine with the 'scan' utility, I have compared the result with the result from a scan performed using my Twinhan DTV Alpha USB stick (7045, not 7045A, which is another story...) and they are identical. But when it's time to record, using the same program I use with the Twinhan stick, I get (almost) no output, just a ridiculously high bit error rate (2097151) and SNR=0. I'm very surprised by this, as the channel scanning works just fine. As far as I understand, and as previously reported by Henrik Backman, the Nova-TD should work with the DVB-T broadcasts here in Sweden. Could my problems be caused by the important bug mentioned yesterday by Patrick Boettcher? If so, is there an earlier version of the driver which doesn't have this bug? The command used to test recording: ~# /usr/local/bin/dvbstream -f 490000 -p V -s 27500 -c 0 -o:test.ts 1029 1028 dvbstream v0.6 - (C) Dave Chapman 2001-2004 Released under the GPL. Latest version available from http://www.linuxstb.org/ Processing -o:test.ts Open file test.ts Using DVB card "DiBcom 7000PC" tuning DVB-T (Stockholm Nacka) to 490000000 Hz, Bandwidth: 8 polling.... Getting frontend event FE_STATUS: polling.... Getting frontend event FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_SYNC Event: Frequency: 490000000 Bit error rate: 2097151 Signal strength: 65535 SNR: 0 FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_SYNC MAP 0, file test.ts: From -1 secs, To -1 secs, 2 PIDs - 1029 1028 dvbstream will stop after -1 seconds (71582788 minutes) Setting filter for PID 1029 Setting filter for PID 1028 Using 224.0.1.2:5004:2 version=2 Streaming 2 streams Caught signal 2 - closing cleanly. ~# ls -la test.ts -rw-r--r-- 1 ath ath 188 Dec 16 16:43 test.ts ~# (I'm terminating the program by pressing Ctrl-C). Whether I get any packets at all seems totally random. In this attempt I got one single packet from several minutes of running dvbstream! A sample from the scan output: ~# grep '^SVT2:' .dvb_channels SVT2:490000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:1029:1028:5060 ~# I have also tried tuning with tzap and recording using cat, but tzap gives this: ~# tzap -a 0 -c ~/.dvb_channels 'SVT2' using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' tuning to 490000000 Hz video pid 0x0405, audio pid 0x0404 status 0f | signal b496 | snr 0000 | ber 001fffff | unc 00000000 | status 1e | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1e | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK ... ~# tzap -a 1 -c ~/.dvb_channels 'SVT2' using '/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter1/demux0' tuning to 490000000 Hz video pid 0x0405, audio pid 0x0404 status 1a | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 001fffff | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1a | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 001fffff | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1a | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 001fffff | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK ... And the 'cat' command gives just as little TS data as dvbstream does. I'm using Linux kernel 2.6.22.6, and updated the dvb drivers from the hg sources about two hours ago. Relevant dmesg output: [ 1293.235000] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 [ 1293.350000] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 1293.432000] dib0700: loaded with support for 5 different device-types [ 1293.440000] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-TD Stick/Elgato Eye-TV Diversity' in cold state, will try to load a firmware [ 1293.858000] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw' [ 1294.146000] dib0700: firmware started successfully. [ 1294.648000] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-TD Stick/Elgato Eye-TV Diversity' in warm state. [ 1294.649000] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. [ 1294.649000] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-TD Stick/Elgato Eye-TV Diversity) [ 1294.875000] DVB: registering frontend 0 (DiBcom 7000PC)... [ 1294.907000] MT2266: successfully identified [ 1295.060000] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. [ 1295.061000] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-TD Stick/Elgato Eye-TV Diversity) [ 1295.223000] DVB: registering frontend 1 (DiBcom 7000PC)... [ 1295.228000] MT2266: successfully identified [ 1295.382000] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /class/input/input7 [ 1295.382000] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 150 msecs. [ 1295.383000] dvb-usb: Hauppauge Nova-TD Stick/Elgato Eye-TV Diversity successfully initialized and connected. [ 1295.383000] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_dib0700 The firmware is a renamed dvb-usb-dib0700-03-pre1.fw : ~# ls -la /lib/firmware/dvb* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33277 2007-12-04 15:51 /lib/firmware/dvb-usb-dib0700-03-pre1.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33277 2007-12-04 15:51 /lib/firmware/dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw ~# cmp /lib/firmware/dvb-usb-dib0700-* ~# I've just spent over an hour fighting with mythtv configuration (I installed the Debian packages) and would appreciate suggestions that do not involve mythtv, as I can't get the thing working. /Tomas _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
