On 30/04/11 22:00, Robert Longbottom wrote: > On 30/04/2011 10:37, Morgan Read wrote: >> OK, think I might be getting somewhere... >> > <snip> > >> [user@vortexbox ~]$ szap -r TV2 >> reading channels from file '/home/user/.szap/channels.conf' ... >> But, nothing happens at Playing /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0. ... Where >> should I see what's playing? > > I usually do: > > $ cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > recording.mpg > > and then in another terminal > > $ mplayer recording.mpg > > Though it doesn't look like thats your problem, but at least you can see > if any data is being retrieved if the file grows in size. Robert, thanks for your help!!! Didn't get far with $ cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > recording.mpg $ mplayer recording.mpg [vortexbox.lan ~]# cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > recording.mpg ^C [vortexbox.lan ~]# ls -l total 36 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 368 Apr 30 21:11 channels.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Apr 30 12:55 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Apr 29 22:22 Documents drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Apr 29 22:34 Downloads drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Apr 25 00:06 Music drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Apr 25 00:06 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Apr 25 00:06 Public -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 0 Apr 30 22:53 recording.mpg drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Apr 25 00:06 Templates drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Apr 25 00:06 Videos [vortexbox.lan ~]# BUT, that gave me an idea... [vortexbox.lan ~]# dvbstream -f 1183 -s 22500 -p h -o 512 650 > recording.mpg dvbstream v0.5 - (C) Dave Chapman 2001-2004 Released under the GPL. Latest version available from http://www.linuxstb.org/ Using DVB card "Conexant CX24123/CX24109" tuning DVB-S to L-Band:1, Pol:H Srate=22500000, 22kHz=off ERROR setting tone : Invalid argument polling.... Getting frontend event FE_STATUS: polling.... Getting frontend event FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL polling.... Getting frontend event FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC Event: Frequency: 11783000 SymbolRate: 22500000 FEC_inner: 3 Bit error rate: 0 Signal strength: 61952 SNR: 57635 FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC Setting filter for PID 512 Setting filter for PID 650 Output to stdout Streaming 2 streams Which produced this: [user@vortexbox ~]$ mplayer recording.mpg MPlayer SVN-r33254-snapshot-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team 162 audio & 360 video codecs Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory Can't init input joystick 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 recording.mpg. TS file format detected. VIDEO MPEG2(pid=512) AUDIO MPA(pid=650) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 0 VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 3) 25.000 fps 15000.0 kbps (1875.0 kbyte/s) Load subtitles in ./ ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... [VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0. Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Try appending the scale filter to your filter list, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. [VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1. Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Try appending the scale filter to your filter list, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. [VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=2. Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Try appending the scale filter to your filter list, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [xv] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12 A:90135.5 V:90135.5 A-V: 0.001 ct: 0.093 13786/13786 6% 0% 0.5% 0 0 MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: sleep_timer A:90135.6 V:90135.6 A-V: 0.001 ct: 0.093 13787/13787 6% 0% 0.5% 0 0 Exiting... (Quit) [user@vortexbox ~]$ And, moving pictures!!! BUT what the frig am I watching of all the channels that have been defined...? Thanks very much for your help!!! Now I just need to work out what's going on! Or, is the tuner simply stuck on what ever it was last put on? And, if so - how to change channels? Regards, Morgan -- Morgan Read NEW ZEALAND <mailto:mstuffATreadDOTorgDOTnz> Confused about DRM? Get all the info you need at: http://drm.info/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
