[vdr] No video ouput

[Rob Willett <rwillett@robertwillett.com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to get VDR to work with my Nebula DigiTV PCI DVB-T card.

I have the card working with my kernel 2.4.24 and the latest dvb drivers.

I can see video and hear audio with

tzap "BBC One"
dvbstream -o -ps -qam 16 -cr 3_4 600 601 | mplayer -

I've compiled up VDR-1.2.6 successfuly (or at least no errors) and 
copied the relevant config files to /video.
I've got a new copy of the channels.conf relevant to London.

I start up VDR but nothing happens. /var/log/messsages reports

Apr  8 20:05:36 mythtv vdr[1828]: VDR version 1.2.6 started
Apr  8 20:05:36 mythtv vdr[1828]: loading /video/sources.conf
Apr  8 20:05:36 mythtv vdr[1828]: loading /video/channels.conf
Apr  8 20:05:36 mythtv vdr[1828]: loading /video/svdrphosts.conf
Apr  8 20:05:36 mythtv vdr[1828]: loading /video/keymacros.conf
Apr  8 20:05:36 mythtv vdr[1828]: found 1 video device
Apr  8 20:05:36 mythtv vdr[1828]: setting primary device to 1
Apr  8 20:05:36 mythtv vdr[1828]: device 1 has no MPEG decoder
Apr  8 20:05:36 mythtv vdr[1828]: SVDRP listening on port 2001

No  errors here.

If I start up vdr as a daemon I can log in on port 2001 and issue 
commands. Oddly enough I can't when it runs standalone.

However I still see absoultely nothing on screen. VDR just sits there 
with nothing happening.

Have I missed something fundamental like I need to compile in 
framebuffer support, or another client that needs to run to connect? I 
have trawled through every message I can can find but can't see anything 
that might give me a clue. I did see that other people have used the 
nebula PCI card so that gives me some hope <grin>.

All advice greatly welcomed.

Rob.



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