Re: Hauppauge HVR-930C problems

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I've got the sources, I've successfully built everything.
Where should I expect to have the binary files after the make install?

Thank you.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10-01-2012 18:23, Mihai Dobrescu wrote:
>> I can't find dvb-fe-util tool.
>
> http://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git/blob/ad284d9ef6600e091515b0abd7cec64736097265:/utils/dvb/dvb-fe-tool.c
>
> Regards,
> Mauro
>
>>
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>
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