Hi, I have a Hauppauge HVR-4000. My system is running the latest Debian testing kernel (2.6.24-7) plus drivers from http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/127f67dea087 patched with http://dev.kewl.org/hauppauge/experimental/mfe-s2-7285.diff , as per the wiki notes (mostly): http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-4000#Drivers I have no problem tuning with http://dev.kewl.org/hauppauge/experimental/szap-meow.tgz to any DVB-S or DVB-S2 QPSK/8PSK transponder I have tried. However there seems to be a problem with the reception of the Astra HD Promo service at 11914500H on Astra1H. I don't know what the problem is exactly, since tuning seems to work: tvbox2:~# szap-meow -r -p -c diseqc2_Astra-19.2E -m 1 -e 9 -o 2 -w 2 ASTRAHDPROMO reading channels from file 'diseqc2_Astra-19.2E' zapping to 1 'ASTRAHDPROMO': sat 1, frequency = 11914 MHz H, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x04ff, apid = 0x0503 sid = 0x0083 using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' status 1f | signal fd40 | snr 6199 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal fe80 | snr 64cd | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal fe40 | snr 6333 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal fd80 | snr 6333 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal fe40 | snr 6199 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal fe80 | snr 6000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK There is an occasional ber > 0 and the snr is not exceptional, but there are other services with much worse snr/ber that have no problem whatsoever. I don't have vdr, mythtv etc. applications installed on the system. I test by redirecting the output of vdr0 to a file, to play back the TS later, or by piping to VLC, to stream on the lan. VLC clearly shows there is a problem because there is always a flood of messages from libdvbpsi on stderr like Bad CRC_32, TS discontinuity, invalid section, PSI section too long etc. I'm not that confident about VLC debugging, but I know for sure this doesn't happen when the service works right. I've tried tuning to freq 11915 as well as using different values for roll-off (-o) and pilot (-w). It doesn't make any difference (-w 1 doesn't work if I remember right). The same thing happens with the Anixe HD service, also on the same transponder. I have no problem tuning to other transponders on Astra1H that carry a mix of scrambled+FTA or FTA-only services, like 11875500H or 12051000V, but they are DVB-S. I also have no problem tuning to DVB-S2 transponders on other LNBs (I have a 4x1 diseqc v1.0 switch with this LNB in position AB), but I could not test any other such transponders with QPSK modulation. I'm wondering what could be the cause of this problem: At first I thought the problem could be that the transponder carries scrambled services as well, but that does not seem to be the case. Then I thought the problem could be the H.264 video payload of the video ES of these services, confusing VLC, hence the many error messages, but I've been able to stream/play at least one other "similar" service (Luxe TV) with no particular problems. Finally I reconsidered the "saga" of the HVR-4000 driver, and started thinking that perhaps I should have gone with one of the other implementations in the first place. I had this card setup a few months ago with 2.6.24 and multiproto, but I had to redo the installation and this time I wanted to try to stick with the official linuxtv.org tree. Could this be the reason? If so, however, I suppose tuning wouldn't work at all, right? Am I missing something here? Any ideas/suggestions you may have are more than welcome... Thanks, Z. PS: Somewhat off-topic question, but here goes anyway, since I have not found a definitive answer: Is there any device with DVB-S2 *and* CI and driver support for both? I have noticed that TT-budget S2-3200 + CI could possibly be the one, but I believe the CI part still doesn't work. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
