[linux-dvb] Re: Driver doesn't replay recordings from RTL

2002-12-22 Thread Olaf Mindermann
and it stops again. (Sigh) At least I deleted this recording Too bad you deleted it - you probably could have watched it using the old firmware... What is the strategy to implement the old firmware to the new driver? I replaced the file 'Root' with the old one dated 2002-04-15. Then I co

[linux-dvb] Camcorder PC recording

2002-12-22 Thread James Hassinger
I have an ambitious project: I'm trying to build a cheap PC that will start recording the output from a camcorder when the PC is turned on and it's finished booting. I also need it to record over the oldest video file on the hard drive. Anyone have any idea how this can be done? James --

[linux-dvb] Re: Panic when starting from cold (was: Re:Announcement: new saa7146 driver core for the av7110 dvb driver)

2002-12-22 Thread Chris Pitchford
Just to further clarify some strange panicing. I'm running 2.4.21-pre1 at the moment with the DVB drivers CVS 10th Dec 2002. All along I have had problems with the kernel panicing when attempting to stream from my Nova-T and still do now.. however, I wonder if people might want to try this. ins

[linux-dvb] Re: New Hauppauge Nova-s

2002-12-22 Thread Matthias Lautner
Hi! You're right! It was the old version. Now it works! In the next days I will try your new patch on my NOVA and NEXUS cards. THANX Matthias On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 23:49:48 +0100 Peter Schildmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > ... > did you use the uni_stv0299 driver that I posted on Dec 0

[linux-dvb] Re: Satelco DVB-S driver problem

2002-12-22 Thread Klaudius Chlebosch
Hi Holger, it works now !!! Many thanks for youre help. But in fact.. i dont understand why. I changed the CARD_INFO to ttbci and it works. In my addition the card type was DVB_CARD_TT_BUDGET, in ttbci its DVB_CARD_TT_BUDGET_CI. But my card has no CI module ?? Anyway, ist works, so thats enou

[linux-dvb] Re: New Hauppauge Nova-s

2002-12-22 Thread Peter Schildmann
Hi, On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 09:52:39PM +0100, Matthias Lautner wrote: > - szap -r zdf produces following result: > zapping to 'ZDF': > sat 0, frequency = 11954 MHz H, symbolrate 2750, vpid = 0x006e, apid = 0x0078 > using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' > status 1f

[linux-dvb] Capturing should work now (Re: Re: Announcement: newsaa7146 driver core for the av7110 dvb driver)

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Johannes, grabdisplay in xawtv (3.81) does not work, I get: ioctl: VIDIOC_DQBUF(index=0;type=VIDEO_CAPTURE;bytesused=0;flags=0x0 [];field=ANY;;timecode.type=0;timecode.flags=0;timecode.frames=0;timecode.seconds=0;timecode.minutes=0;timecode.hours=0;timecode.userbits="";sequence=0;memory=

[linux-dvb] Re: System load caused by I2C (was: Re: Re: Announcement:new saa7146 driver core for the av7110 dvb driver)

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Johannes, > Usually there's no need to to capture vbi on a DVB card. > One exception might be the analog extension for the > Fujitsu-Seimens DVB-C card, but I'm not shure if that is > currently supported at all. I think that something like "vbi-insertion" is totally superfluous, because yo

[linux-dvb] Re: Universal STV0299/TSA5059 frontend driver

2002-12-22 Thread Peter Schildmann
Hi, On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:00:28PM +0100, Holger Waechtler wrote: > unfortunally this is a pretty bad solution if you have multiple cards > with different stv0299 based tuner modules - you can't load the same > module multiple times with different module parameters. > > We have to implement

[linux-dvb] Re: System load caused by I2C (was: Re: Re: Announcement: new saa7146 driver core for the av7110 dvb driver)

2002-12-22 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:14:37AM +0100, Michael Hunold wrote: > > >Maybe not enough to worry about, but maybe > >we could use one of the saa's register sequencers for I2C timing? > > Yes, heavy i2c access can cause high system load, that's true. > > In my current design, RPS0 is used for video

[linux-dvb] Re: Panic when starting from cold (was: Re:Announcement: new saa7146 driver core for the av7110 dvb driver)

2002-12-22 Thread Andrew de Quincey
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 19:46, Michael Hunold wrote: > Hello Pete, > > > As the original author of this driver, I was wondering if you have any ideas > > on tracking down the kernel panic that sometimes occurs in this driver when > > starting up from cold. Several people have reported similar proble

[linux-dvb] Re: New Hauppauge Nova-s

2002-12-22 Thread Matthias Lautner
Hi, on 2002-12-18 I've got my new WinTV NOVA-s. Unfortunately the card has the new SU1278/SH tuner with the STV0299B. (PCI-Id 0x13c2, 0x100f) I tried dvb-20021221.tar.bz2 and the lorenzen driver but got only poor results: - cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 | ./ts2ps 0x65 0x66 | mplayer -cache 2048 -

[linux-dvb] generic_usercopy() (was: Re: Re: AW: Re: [linuxtv-cvs][CVS-LinuxTV] dvb-kernel)

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hallo Holger, IIRC the video_usercopy() fake was implemented in a way that we use the generic_usercopy() implementation in case that either CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not defined or the kernel is too old and does not provides any video_usercopy() implementation. Yes. Alan was talking about a gener

[linux-dvb] Re: AW: Re: [linuxtv-cvs] [CVS-LinuxTV] dvb-kernel

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Florian, No. We're using the official v4l2 implementation for the 2.4.x kernel. (ftp://ftp.thedirks.org/pub/v4l2/kernel2.4/videodevX/videodevX-20020330.tgz) . This implementation doesn't provide vide_copy(). Ah, now I understand where the confusion comes from. Ok, some background: the v4

[linux-dvb] Panic when starting from cold (was: Re: Announcement:new saa7146 driver core for the av7110 dvb driver)

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Pete, As the original author of this driver, I was wondering if you have any ideas on tracking down the kernel panic that sometimes occurs in this driver when starting up from cold. Several people have reported similar problems. I'd like to point out again that I'm not the original author

[linux-dvb] Re: Announcement: new saa7146 driver core for theav7110 dvb driver

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Hunold
Hello Johannes, One other thing I noticed: The new I2C driver causes a higher system load, most visible when you pull out the SAT cable and let the kdvb-fe thread do its zig-zag scanning work. In theory the approach with schedule() should perform better than the old mdelay() stuff, but it seems i

[linux-dvb] Re: Driver doesn't replay recordings from RTL

2002-12-22 Thread Holger Waechtler
Oliver Endriss wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Marcus Metzler wrote: Klaus Schmidinger writes: > Oliver Endriss wrote: > > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > > Since yesterday (maybe even earlier) the driver (CVS version > > > 2002-12-08) doesn't replay (new) recordings from RTL any > > > more. It b

[linux-dvb] Re: Satelco DVB-S driver problem

2002-12-22 Thread Holger Waechtler
Hi, have you checked that DiSEqC works correctly? Please set CARD_INFO ttbci: { PHILIPS_SAA7146, 0x13c2, 0x100f, CARD_INFO ttbci }, /* LORENZEN DVB-S and Satelco DVB-S */ please report when you get this working, good luck, Holger Klaudius Chlebosch wrote: Hi Holger, thanks for pointing

[linux-dvb] Re: Driver doesn't replay recordings from RTL

2002-12-22 Thread Oliver Endriss
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Marcus Metzler wrote: > > Klaus Schmidinger writes: > > > Oliver Endriss wrote: > > > > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > > > > Since yesterday (maybe even earlier) the driver (CVS version > > > > > 2002-12-08) doesn't replay (new) recordings from RTL any > > > > > more.

[linux-dvb] Re: Satelco DVB-S driver problem

2002-12-22 Thread Klaudius Chlebosch
Hi Holger, thanks for pointing me to the patch. Looks somewhat better now but still does not work. szap -n 1 gives now: zapping to 'Das Erste': sat 0, frequency = 11837 MHz H, symbolrate 2750, vpid = 0x0065, apid = 0x0066 using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' s

[linux-dvb] Re: Satelco DVB-S driver problem

2002-12-22 Thread Holger Waechtler
Klaudius Chlebosch wrote: Hi Holger, i have no idea which 'chip' you mean, but will try to describe the card: 1. out of the metal box: 1 IC Philips SAA 7146A H, CG0532.00, kt0222V3 2. on the metal box: SU1278/SH, 3112 297 12871, 214 HJ11 GA00136 The SU1278 (and therefore your card) is supporte

[linux-dvb] Re: Nebula Electronics DTT card

2002-12-22 Thread Richard Walker
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Holger Waechtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nebula Support wrote: > > > Thanks for the advice. I can confirm that we will be following the > > existing standard for the API. > > > > As for releasing information about the card, much as we would like to we

[linux-dvb] Re: Announcement: new saa7146 driver core for theav7110 dvb driver

2002-12-22 Thread Andrew de Quincey
> > As the original author of this driver, I was wondering if you have any ideas > > on tracking down the kernel panic that sometimes occurs in this driver when > > starting up from cold. Several people have reported similar problems. I have > > a ksymoops output which points to the routine fidbir

[linux-dvb] Re: Satelco DVB-S driver problem

2002-12-22 Thread Klaudius Chlebosch
Hi Holger, i have no idea which 'chip' you mean, but will try to describe the card: 1. out of the metal box: 1 IC Philips SAA 7146A H, CG0532.00, kt0222V3 2. on the metal box: SU1278/SH, 3112 297 12871, 214 HJ11 GA00136 3. inside the metal box nearly unreadable: STV0299B, T041007, T221L0124, MALT

[linux-dvb] Re: Satelco DVB-S driver problem

2002-12-22 Thread Holger Waechtler
Hi Klaudius, Can you please tell me what frontend is soldered on this card? Holger Klaudius Chlebosch wrote: Hi List, i have problems getting my new Satelco DVB-S Standard PCI to work. It looks like a TT-Budget in a newer revision. I checked this out with the new driver from 1.11.2002 and 8

[linux-dvb] Re: Driver doesn't replay recordings from RTL

2002-12-22 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Marcus Metzler wrote: > > Klaus Schmidinger writes: > > Oliver Endriss wrote: > > > > > > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > > > Since yesterday (maybe even earlier) the driver (CVS version > > > > 2002-12-08) doesn't replay (new) recordings from RTL any more. It > > > > behaves just as if it had

[linux-dvb] Satelco DVB-S driver problem

2002-12-22 Thread Klaudius Chlebosch
Hi List, i have problems getting my new Satelco DVB-S Standard PCI to work. It looks like a TT-Budget in a newer revision. I checked this out with the new driver from 1.11.2002 and 8.12.2002 from Klaus Schmiedingers hompage and a cvs checkout on 21.12.2002 => all the same. I had to modify the

[linux-dvb] Re: AW: Re: [linuxtv-cvs] [CVS-LinuxTV] dvb-kernel

2002-12-22 Thread Holger Waechtler
Florian Schirmer wrote: Hi, Sorry, I wasn't clear here: for 2.4.x I use the backported 2.5.x videodev-stuff. This is because we need v4l2, too, which is not available for 2.4.x at all. So, it we have video_copy() for all kernels in videodev.o, right? No. We're using the official v4l2 imple