[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

2003-02-24 Thread Bruno Prior
Timo, Thanks for the reply. Timo Teräs wrote: I also have a Nova-T card. I tried it with following drivers and results: DVB and dvb-kernel (CVS head about week ago): Loads & detects card fine. Tunes ok. But when I use dvbstream to stream out the data it starts ok but stops quite fast. Ie. I onl

[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

2003-02-24 Thread Bruno Prior
bably CPU with it)? Or replace the Nova-T? And replace them with what? Cheers, Bruno Prior Gavin Hamill wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:55:34PM +, Bruno Prior wrote: I can't think of anything else to try. The two lines: Nothing to read from fd_pat Nothing to read from fd_sdt This jus

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB-s and Sky channels

2003-02-02 Thread Bruno Prior
's OT, but I believe the Terratec DR-Box-1 USB DAB tuner is the only option for DAB on linux nowadays. I'm just playing with it at the moment. It works a damn site better for DAB than the Hauppauge Nova-T does for DVB, and the support from Georg at Baycom is fantastic. Cheers, Bruno P

[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

2003-01-13 Thread Bruno Prior
Gavin Hamill wrote: > > 2) Try the card in Windows! Make sure you don't actually have a duff > one! :) Right. I've tried sticking the Nova-T in Rachel's computer, which is dual-bootable Win98 and Mandrake 9.0. Windows recognized the new hardware and the drivers installed OK. The software installe

[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

2003-01-12 Thread Bruno Prior
Gavin Hamill wrote: OK, there are only two things I can think of now, and both are clutching at straws 1) IRQ conflicts... do an 'lspci -v' or 'cat /proc/interrupts' and make sure nothing is sharing an IRQ. You may have hit the nail on the head with this one. It's sharing an IRQ with th

[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

2003-01-12 Thread Bruno Prior
e are any clues in there. But they look OK to me (at least so long as I am running as root). Any other ideas? Or am I simply cursed? Cheers, Bruno Prior [root@mars dvbtune-20030112]# ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/ total 0 crw---1 root root 250, 4 Jan 1 1970 demux0 crw---1

[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

2003-01-10 Thread Bruno Prior
Mike Albon wrote: > > I can send you my static binaries and updated scan-uk script if that > would help. I'm grateful for any help and willing to try anything. But I'll give Gavin's suggestion to try the older dvb package a go first. Cheers, Bruno Prior -- Info: To

[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

2003-01-09 Thread Bruno Prior
me, linux *STINKS* on any practical assessment. My only consolation is when I try using other people's Windows machines, and they die on me too. Like I say - stay well clear, I have the black spot. Having said all that, I'd still like to figure this out. ;-) Cheers, Bruno Prior -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.

[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

2003-01-09 Thread Bruno Prior
vbtune and dvbstream downloaded from the CVS respository on sourceforge.net ? Definitely. Checked out two days ago. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Bruno Prior -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.

[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

2003-01-08 Thread Bruno Prior
quot;Could not connect to socket" and "No such file or directory" messages from mplayer indicate that dvbstream is streaming nothing. Thanks for the suggestions, but there seems to be something fundamentally wrong with my setup. And it seems to be pretty similar to Will Tatam

[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

2003-01-07 Thread Bruno Prior
read from fd_pat Nothing to read from fd_sdt Much the same for dvbtune -i -f 481833. You'll probably have better luck with mplayer and "-vo sdl" or maybe "-noaspect" and then changing the size settings on your monitor... No luck with any of this so far. But this is all G

[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

2003-01-07 Thread Bruno Prior
Holger Waechtler wrote: > > do you have a Fullfeatured card with MPEG decoder onboard (do you see a > chip labeled with a big 'DSP' logo and the string av7110 or av7111 in > the name)? I am using this machine for email, so I can't check right now, but I am pretty certain it is not a fullfeatured

[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

2003-01-05 Thread Bruno Prior
(-2 with -1 compatibility) is compiled into the kernel. I've run "make insmod" to setup the ost devices. Once again, I feel I am missing something obvious, but I can't find any HOWTO or man page to guide me through this. What am I doing wrong? Cheers, Bruno Prior Holger W

[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

2002-12-30 Thread Bruno Prior
o I'll try xawtv. Is there any guide anywhere to using the various *zap programs? Cheers, Bruno Prior -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.

[linux-dvb] Newbie questions

2002-12-29 Thread Bruno Prior
gital TV channel, I feel like I'm groping in the dark. I would appreciate any help people can give me. If there is a FM for beginners, please tell me to go and read it. I am happy to take the time to work this out for myself, but I cannot find a basic introduction to the subject to star