I can't find dvb-fe-util tool. On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10-01-2012 17:30, Mihai Dobrescu wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Just compiled the latest again, but still no difference. >> kaffeine doesn't see any source in channels dialog, two devices are in >> 'Configure Television' dialog: DRXK DVB-C - device not connected - as >> Device 1 and DRXK DVB-C DVB-T as Device 2. Concerning the last one, no >> source is selected, as I am in Romania, which is not in the list >> scan_w finds nothing. >> >> What should I do next? > > Kaffeine doesn't work with MFE tuners (at least not the version I have). > It only sees one delivery system. > > If you're using the very latest version of the driver (the one at the > media-build tree), you can use the dvb-fe-util tool to change > the delivery system to DVB-C or to DVB-T. > > The tool is now part of the v4l-utils. > > You may also request a Kaffeine developer or to submit a patch for it, > in order to add support on it to detect the frontend supported > delivery systems and to change it dynamically. > >> >> Regards, Mike. >> >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Fredrik Lingvall >> <fredrik.lingvall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 12/25/11 16:56, Fredrik Lingvall wrote: >>>> >>>> On 12/18/11 10:20, Fredrik Lingvall wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 12/17/11 20:53, Mihai Dobrescu wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Mihai, >>>>>> >>>>>> I got some success. I did this, >>>>>> >>>>>> # cd /usr/src (for example) >>>>>> >>>>>> # git clone git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git >>>>>> >>>>>> # emerge dev-util/patchutils >>>>>> # emerge Proc-ProcessTable >>>>>> >>>>>> # cd media_build >>>>>> # ./build >>>>>> # make install >>>>>> >>>>>> Which will install the latest driver on your running kernel (just in >>>>>> case >>>>>> make sure /usr/src/linux points to your running kernel sources). Then >>>>>> reboot. >>>>>> >>>>>> You should now see that (among other) modules have loaded: >>>>>> >>>>>> # lsmod >>>>>> >>>>>> <snip> >>>>>> >>>>>> em28xx 93528 1 em28xx_dvb >>>>>> v4l2_common 5254 1 em28xx >>>>>> videobuf_vmalloc 4167 1 em28xx >>>>>> videobuf_core 15151 2 em28xx,videobuf_vmalloc >>>>>> >>>>>> Then try w_scan and dvbscan etc. I got mythtv to scan too now. There >>>>>> were >>>>>> some warnings and timeouts and I'm not sure if this is normal or not. >>>>>> >>>>>> You can also do a dmesg -c while scanning to monitor the changes en the >>>>>> kernel log. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> /Fredrik >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> In my case I have: >>>>>> >>>>>> lsmod |grep em2 >>>>>> em28xx_dvb 12608 0 >>>>>> dvb_core 76187 1 em28xx_dvb >>>>>> em28xx 82436 1 em28xx_dvb >>>>>> v4l2_common 5087 1 em28xx >>>>>> videodev 70123 2 em28xx,v4l2_common >>>>>> videobuf_vmalloc 3783 1 em28xx >>>>>> videobuf_core 12991 2 em28xx,videobuf_vmalloc >>>>>> rc_core 11695 11 >>>>>> >>>>>> rc_hauppauge,ir_lirc_codec,ir_mce_kbd_decoder,ir_sanyo_decoder,ir_sony_decoder,ir_jvc_decoder,ir_rc6_decoder,ir_rc5_decoder,em28xx,ir_nec_decoder >>>>>> tveeprom 12441 1 em28xx >>>>>> i2c_core 14232 9 >>>>>> >>>>>> xc5000,drxk,em28xx_dvb,em28xx,v4l2_common,videodev,tveeprom,nvidia,i2c_i801 >>>>>> >>>>>> yet, w_scan founds nothing. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I was able to scan using the "media_build" install method described above >>>>> but when trying to watch a free channel the image and sound was stuttering >>>>> severly. I have tried both MythTV and mplayer with similar results. >>>>> >>>>> I created the channel list for mplayer with: >>>>> >>>>> lintv ~ # dvbscan -x0 -fc /usr/share/dvb/dvb-c/no-Oslo-Get -o zap > >>>>> .mplayer/channels.conf >>>>> >>>>> And, for example, I get this output from mplayer plus a very (blocky) >>>>> stuttering image and sound: >>>>> >>>>> lin-tv ~ # mplayer dvb://1@"TV8 Oslo" -ao jack >>>>> >>>> >>>> I did some more tests with release snapshots 2011-12-13, 2011-12-21, and >>>> 2011-12-25, respectively. I did this by changing >>>> >>>> LATEST_TAR := >>>> http://linuxtv.org/downloads/drivers/linux-media-LATEST.tar.bz2 >>>> LATEST_TAR_MD5 := >>>> http://linuxtv.org/downloads/drivers/linux-media-LATEST.tar.bz2.md5 >>>> >>>> in linux/Makefile to the corresponding release. >>>> >>>> Results: >>>> >>>> * linux-media-2011-12-13.tar.bz2 >>>> >>>> The ./build script builds the drivers cleanly, scanning works, but >>>> watching video does not work correctly. >>>> >>>> * linux-media-2011-12-21.tar.bz2 >>>> >>>> The ./build script fails at the as3645a.c file (on this machine but I can >>>> build it on two other machines using the same kernel and kernel >>>> 2.6.39-gentoo-r3, respectively). I can build it with make menuconfig etc >>>> (where I disabled stuff I don't need, eg. disabling [ ] Media Controller API >>>> (EXPERIMENTAL) ). The em28xx generate a kernel core dump though [1]. >>>> >>>> * linux-media-2011-12-25.tar.bz2 >>>> >>>> Same problem as 2011-12-21. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> /Fredrik >>>> >>> >>> Here's some more test results. >>> >>> I have upgraded the kernel to 3.1.6-gentoo (where I enabled DVB when I build >>> the kernel). Both >>> >>> http://linuxtv.org/downloads/drivers/linux-media-2012-01-07.tar.bz2 >>> >>> and >>> >>> http://linuxtv.org/downloads/drivers/linux-media-2012-01-08.tar.bz2 >>> >>> now builds using the >>> >>> lin-tv ~ # cd /usr/src >>> lin-tv src # git clone git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git >>> lin-tv src # cd media_build >>> lin-tv media_build # ./build >>> lin-tv media_build # make install >>> >>> method. Scanning and (finally) watching video works but not flawlessly. >>> >>> I also suspect that I don't find all channels when I scan. I have scanned >>> using, >>> >>> * dvbscan -x 0 -fc /usr/share/dvb/dvb-c/no-Oslo-Get > .mplayer/channels.conf >>> * Kaffeine (1.2.2) >>> * MythTV (0.25_pre20120103) >>> >>> respectively. Both kaffeine and mythtv reports a very low signal level (0%) >>> and an SNR of only 1%. (kaffeine). I'm not sure if the driver reports this >>> correctly though. >>> >>> Whatching live TV works on some channels but not all. HD channels seems more >>> difficult than SD channels, and I have not figured out why some channels >>> work and some don't. I get >>> >>> Signal 0% | S/N 2.6dB | BE 0 | (_L_S) Partial Lock >>> >>> and no video on many channels in mythtv. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> /Fredrik >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > -- 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
