Re: [linux-dvb] Is there a daemon style program for scheduled DVB recording?

2008-02-29 Thread Adam Nielsen
Hi again, Thanks for all the replies! I've checked out a few programs and decided to use dvbstream as Tim Hewett suggested. >> Obviously, you seem to have never actually tried VDR. It's >> extremely lean and clean and it don't need to run with any output. >> You can telnet into it and schedule r

Re: [linux-dvb] [OT] UHF masthead amp power supply location

2008-02-29 Thread Adam Nielsen
> This this OT, but I don't really know where to ask. And after all, the > odds are that I will find a person with that sort of knowledge here. Perhaps a satellite TV forum, if you don't get any good replies here. > Option A - This is the easiest for me to achieve, but the position of > the power

Re: [linux-dvb] dvico dual digital 4 revision 2.0

2008-02-28 Thread Adam Nielsen
> nothing in dmesg > firmware in folder > chris asked me for a ssh box > is installed and ready to go > only thing loaded is chris's v4l tree > if you wanted to have a look ill email you the details If Chris is looking into it then that's good, I'm not exactly an expert in these sorts of things.

Re: [linux-dvb] dvico dual digital 4 revision 2.0

2008-02-28 Thread Adam Nielsen
> have chris pascoe intrested but he is very busy so could be a while > before he looks into it > the new card has a new hardware id last 2 digits is 98 not 78 > am working with a mate who has a revision 1.1 card > if i change the v4l-dvb haidware id to mine > linux will pick it up and install the

Re: [linux-dvb] How do you stream the entire MPEG-TS with dvbstream?

2008-02-23 Thread Adam Nielsen
>> with the same drivers and a different version of dvbstream? >> In any case you should always try a fresh cvs checkout of dvbstream. >> A simple test you should run is this: >> >> dvbstream -f 226500 -gi 16 -bw 7 -o 8192 > dump.ts >> and try to play the dump.ts from another terminal. If you see

Re: [linux-dvb] Is there a daemon style program for scheduled DVB recording?

2008-02-23 Thread Adam Nielsen
> Obviously, you seem to have never actually tried VDR. It's extremely > lean and clean and it don't need to run with any output. You can telnet > into it and schedule recordings and it's easy to view recordings over > NFS, or use a streaming media client directly towards VDR with a > suitable stre

Re: [linux-dvb] Is there a daemon style program for scheduled DVB recording?

2008-02-23 Thread Adam Nielsen
> there used to be dvbd somewhere sometimes, although I can't say how > it works because I never used it I did investigate dvbd a few years ago, it seems great and does exactly what I want but unfortunately I could never get it to work with my card. I looked into it again this afternoon but unfor

Re: [linux-dvb] How do you stream the entire MPEG-TS with dvbstream?

2008-02-23 Thread Adam Nielsen
> with the same drivers and a different version of dvbstream? > In any case you should always try a fresh cvs checkout of dvbstream. > A simple test you should run is this: > > dvbstream -f 226500 -gi 16 -bw 7 -o 8192 > dump.ts > and try to play the dump.ts from another terminal. If you see corr

[linux-dvb] Is there a daemon style program for scheduled DVB recording?

2008-02-23 Thread Adam Nielsen
Hi everyone, I'm currently setting up a new server that will (among other things) record TV shows for me. In the past I've used cron to schedule recording jobs, and I've used dvbrecord to do the actual recording. This set up has served me well for many years, but unfortunately dvbrecord doesn't

[linux-dvb] How do you stream the entire MPEG-TS with dvbstream?

2008-02-22 Thread Adam Nielsen
Hi everyone, I've just installed a new DViCO FusionHDTV dual digital 4 (which appears to the PC as two USB "Zarlink ZL10353 DVB-T" devices.) I'm trying to set up dvbstream to send the whole transport stream across the network to another PC, but I can't get this to work. If I do something like th

Re: SOLVED [linux-dvb] cx88[0]/2: cx8802_restart_queue: queue is empty

2006-09-07 Thread Adam Nielsen
> every 30 seconds or so some data is dropped (enough to corrupt the > video and make the sound drop out for a second) and while this happens > my kernel logs are filled with these messages > Sep 4 16:41:06 [kernel] [4295039.887000] cx88[0]/2: cx8802_restart_queue > Sep 4 16:41:06 [kernel] [42950

[linux-dvb] cx88[0]/2: cx8802_restart_queue: queue is empty

2006-09-04 Thread Adam Nielsen
Hi everyone, I've just moved my DVico card (cx88 based with mt352 frontend) into a new PC, however every 30 seconds or so some data is dropped (enough to corrupt the video and make the sound drop out for a second) and while this happens my kernel logs are filled with these messages - does anyone h

Re: [linux-dvb] All I want is to record TV programs :-(

2006-09-04 Thread Adam Nielsen
> Try dvbstream from dvbtools . Ah, I've been using dvbstream to watch live TV, but I didn't realise the latest version has support for writing to a file. How does it cope with files > 2GB? dvbrecord doesn't like those (I have to record to stdout and then redirect it to a file.) > dvbstream -ps

[linux-dvb] All I want is to record TV programs :-(

2006-09-02 Thread Adam Nielsen
Hi everyone, I've just moved one of my DVB cards into a new server, but I can't for the life of me figure out how you're supposed to actually *do* anything with the card nowadays. My old server was installed a few years back, and I was using a program called "dvbrecord" which was being run from w

[linux-dvb] Re: How to load tda1004x firmware in Linux 2.6

2004-05-04 Thread Adam Nielsen
> > You need to compile and load budget_ci in order for the card to be > > recognized. Ah yes, loading the buget_ci module made everything work properly now - I didn't even seem to need the budget module, but I never thought of using budget_ci seeing as my card doesn't have a CI interface. Perhap

[linux-dvb] How to load tda1004x firmware in Linux 2.6

2004-05-03 Thread Adam Nielsen
Hi everyone, I've been tearing my hair out over this for about six hours now, trying to figure out why I can't get my Nova-t card working with kernel 2.6.6. It worked fine under 2.4.22, but a lot has changed since then and I can't find any docs about how to get this going under 2.6. I compiled e