DVB-C device not recogniced

[Gerd Mayer]

ME-TV does not found my Technisat CableStar HD2 DVB-C device. Driver mantis, Tuner tda10023
With mplayer and kaffeine I can watch tv.
Same behaviour with 1.3.6 and 2.0.0 on gentoo. Installed from source.

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Please attach verbose output `me-tv -v`.

[Gerd Mayer (grmayer)]

attached me-tv.out

gerd@c2q ~ $ ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter3/
insgesamt 0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 4 1. Apr 2011 demux0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 5 1. Apr 2011 dvr0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 3 1. Apr 2011 frontend0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 7 1. Apr 2011 net0

gerd@c2q ~ $ cat mplayer.out
gerd@c2q ~ $ mplayer dvb://4@ZDF
MPlayer SVN-r33094-4.5.2 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team

Spiele dvb://4@ZDF.
dvb_tune Freq: 450000000
TS-Dateiformat erkannt!
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=110) AUDIO MPA(pid=120) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 0
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 3) 25.000 fps 15000.0 kbps (1875.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Öffne Videodecoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Ausgewählter Videocodec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Öffne Audiodecoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/16.67% (ratio: 32000->192000)
Ausgewählter Audiocodec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starte Wiedergabe...
Film-Aspekt ist 1.78:1 - Vorskalierung zur Korrektur der Seitenverhältnisse.
VO: [xv] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12
A:20222.0 V:20222.0 A-V: 0.061 ct: -0.299 100/100 6% 0% 52.7% 2 0

Beenden... (Ende)

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This seems like an interesting problem. Do you have a /dev/dvb/adapter0? Or does it just start at 3?

[Gerd Mayer (grmayer)]

Yes, I have /dev/dvb/adapter0, /dev/dvb/adapter1 and /dev/dvb/adaptor3
The numbers are set by udev rules

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Why not 2? Me TV starts at 0 and increments until it doesn't find an adapter. I can change this I guess but I don't quite know when to stop.

[Gerd Mayer (grmayer)]

ok, without the gap it works.

I want use my DVB-T and the DVB-C adapter at the same time, is this possible ?

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Like I said, I'm happy to iterate over x adapters even if they are not present ... someone just needs to tell me what x is. But, if you're happy with your new solution then I can leave it the way it is. Let me know.

Re: at the same time,

I do not have this set up but I know of people that have this working. See https://answers.launchpad.net/me-tv/+question/147437. The idea is to use the --devices option to tune your stations one device at a time. Once the channels for both devices are loaded, run Me TV without the --devices option and Me TV will look for an appropriate device for the selected channel.

[Gerd Mayer (grmayer)]

The solution is ok for me, thank you for the quick response.

With me-tv-2.0.0 I can't import the attached channels.conf.cbl, (invalid parameter count)

With me-tv-1-3-6 the import of the same file is working fine.

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

To be clear, you are selecting the DVB-C device using the --devices option when using trying to import that channel, yes?

[Gerd Mayer (grmayer)]

yes, I select adapter2 and do the import of channels.conf.cbl and it fails

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Can I please see the verbose output from that process?

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for the excellent information. Yes, this is a bug, I had hard-coded it to be DVB-T.

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Fix committed in revision 89. I'll release this shortly as Me TV 2.0.1 because this is a significant issue.

[Gerd Mayer (grmayer)]

Now the import of DVB-C channels.conf works and I can record from DVB-T and DVB-C !
Thank you for the quick fix