[vdr] Re: VDR only channel switching, XAWTV only pictures, not both

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Ton van Baalen wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to get my Galaxis DVB car to work under linux.

Wow - how much horsepower does that car have?
(Sorry, couldn't resist. This was just too tempting ;-)

> After a lot
> of pain I compiled the Siemens driver for this card and the tuxzap
> applications that go with it. I first tried XAWTV and tuxview that afaik
> does the same in a different window which gives a nice picture but I am
> not able to switch the channels there. When I use tuxzap it comes with
> teh error "channel not found". I don't know how to configure it. The
> manpages keep me running in circles, I cannot find a Howto or a decent
> manual so I skipped it and tried VDR. I made a /video directry which
> contains the necessary files. VDR compiles and runs without complains,
> not even in /var/log/messages. When I switch the channel I hear the
> sound go to a different station, the logging in /var/log/messages says
> it switched to channel so and so but I cannot se any picture. I have a
> black screen.
> 
> I hope someone can help me out here. I have spent about 80 hours to get
> it working now and I am getting tired of it.

Are you serious? Eighty hours? That's ten full working days?!
What have you been doing all that time?

> When there is no one who
> can explain me what to do, or point me to a manual where I can find out
> how to configure things I will give up and return to Windows (which I
> hate to do). Or I should start VDR. Choose the desired channel. Close
> VDR. Start Xawtv and watch until I wan to see something else. Then stop
> Xawtv, choose another channel in VDR etc..... Or is this the way how
> things suppose to work? ;-)

VDR requires a TV set to be attached to the A/V out of the DBV card.
It is not designed to display anything on your X11 desktop (you can,
though, do that with a combination of vdr and kvdr).

> I must be crazy. When I bought a windows program that took so much
> effort to install, it would have ended in the trashcan a week ago.

Well, but I guess you didn't *buy* VDR or any of the DVB tools - they're
free ;-)

Klaus
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