Karl Weigel wrote:
Dear list,
I have bought a Hauppauge DVB-C-card, in the hope it would be usefull for me. My goal was, to watch and record digital tv on my pc.
The hardware does kind of work, but it is not very comfortable. Sometime in december I fetched the current cvs-version on linuxtv.org and I can use this software to bring pictures on my monitor. I have to issue "make insmod" in DVB/driver, then I can start apps/szap/czap <channel> and if I then start apps/test/video, I get a picture, which I can only recognize, if I am using my text-console, which is on a framebuffer. Under X the picture is distorted. If I want to tune to a different channel, I have to remove the modules and re-insert them, otherwise the tuning is not successfull (no FE_HAS_LOCK)
My questions are:
Am I with the right mailing list for this kind of problems?
kind of.
What is a "frontend" in this environment?
The combination of analog tuner and digital demodulator.
Which is the "right" driver to use? I found the cvs at linuxtv.org, I have seen, that linux 2.5 contains something very similar and I have seen various other drivers, which seem to differ not too much, so that I am a bit confused.Use the (pre-)release tarballs unless you are explicitly willing to contribute to development and/or test and debug enw features.
Unfortunately it does not work as I wish and I am confused, so I guess I need some help to get this to work.you probably want to use a real application, not the driver test programs. Take a look on xawtv instead of the video test program, try VDR for a real digital video recording application. Browse around in the web and the mailing list archives for other useful DVB software.