At 17:11 15/04/2003, you wrote:
Two problems, both related to the fact that the instructions I have
seen for using the Nova-T to watch TV on the computer have relied on
dvbtune/dvbstream (piping to mplayer):
1. dvbtune -i gives me no information ("Nothing to read from fd_pat...")
That's usually what I get when I have the wrong QAM and FEC for the
transponder. It locks on, but just doesn't read anything useful. I've
seen you're supplying qam and fec on the command line and for all but
the ITV and C5 transmitter QAM 16 and FEC 3_4 should be right. ITV / C5
have QAM 64 and FEC 2_3.
2. Piping dvbstream to mplayer does not even bring up the mplayer
window. If I use -nocache with mplayer, I get:
Playing -
Reading from stdin...
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
FE_HAS_SYNC
Bit error rate: 85
Signal strength: 12079
SNR: 59367
all good here
Which never moves past this point. So it seems that dvbstream is not
actually streaming anything successfully to stdout, despite saying
that it is.
are you selecting the right PIDs on command line. For BBC-1 for example
these should be 600 for video and 601 for audio (I believe these are the
same around the country).
When you are not sure about the correct parameter sets you might want to
use e.g. scan (DVB/apps/scan/) to create a correct channel list for you...