Hi all,
I recently got a USB adapter "Astrometa DVB-T2" that I would like to use
with VDR. It comprises two frontends:
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0: Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T)
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1: Panasonic MN88473 (DVB-T2 and DVB-C)
I guess it is similar to this one; just a slightly different plastic
case with some more ventilation holes:
http://blog.palosaari.fi/2014/09/naked-hardware-18-astrometa-amdvb-t2-v2.ht…
The hardware appears to work fine, once I copied the
/lib/firmware/…
[View More]dvb-demod-mn88473-01.fw from somewhere. The firmware
upload has failed at least once on the Raspberry Pi 2 (using Linux
4.9.59), but never on another machine that runs a 4.13.0 kernel.
I did not yet get the infrared remote control to produce anything in
evtest.
With dvbv5-zap (after running dvbv5-scan), I can tune into DVB-T2
channels like this:
dvbv5-zap -a 0 -f 1 -c dvb_channel.conf 'Yle TV1 HD' -r
After this, I can play the video and audio stream on the Raspberry Pi 2:
omxplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
Unless I explicitly specify the options -a 0 -f 1, then dvbv5-zap will
fail to find any DVB-T2 senders, because it apparently defaults to
frontend0, which is DVB-T only.
In VDR 2.3.8, I have only been able to view DVB-T from the first
frontend.
When I did a trick and renamed /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1 to frontend0
before starting VDR, VDR no longer complained that the DVB-T2 channels
(which I converted from the dvb_channel.conf to channels.conf with
dvb-format-convert) not being available, but it did not seem to receive
anything from these channels either.
Also, after using dvbv5-scan or dvbv5-zap, I sometimes have to invoke
w_scan to "reset" the hardware so that VDR can receive DVB-T channels.
I would like to receive and record DVB-T and DVB-T2 on this setup. I am
willing to try patches or do some programming myself, but I would
appreciate some hints to get started.
Marko
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My mom (82 years old) is still using a VCR with a tuner box. We are
concerned about it wearing out, the tapes no longer being sold, etc..
She just spent $65 on a 9 pack of tapes from Amazon that could have gone
to a new setup and she is saying she wants to get another VCR for
backup. But they haven't been made in years, so it would already be
used. I have a linux computer running VDR with a couple of dual ATSC
dual tuner cards. But it needs to be rebuilt/reinstalled and I haven't
messed …
[View More]with it in so long, I would have to learn it all over again and
I'm not as good at figuring stuff out as I used to be and money is tight.
You can get VDR/Linux images ready to go for a Raspberry pi which cost
about $35. Add a USB Tuner and a USB drive and you have a digital
recorder system. And if I ever get mine rebuilt, they could be linked
and share tuners and drive space. But it's complicated and time
consuming to setup for me atm.
These ready made units would be simpler to get going, but a good one
would cost more and be more complicated for her to use. I still have to
setup timers for recording with the VCR.
I'm looking for recommendations/options/opinions. While the local over
the air guide is mostly a mess, sometimes not sending out the prime time
data till nearly noon of that day, we'd want to avoid having to sub to
any service to keep cost down. Needs to be local recording, be able to
use local guide data and when needed setup blind recordings as done on
VCRs, and would be nice if you could plug and remove USB drives/sticks
for longer term storing recordings. From what I've seen, these ready
made systems don't really like media swapping.
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Hi,
according to the description the plugin supports rtp-o-tcp.
Unfortunately the payload is not transferred via tcp, but
like with unicast via udp. There is no difference between
unicast and rtp-over-tcp.
Is this a bug or did I do something wrong with the settings?
The current settings are as follows:
satip.CICAM = 0 0
satip.DisabledFilters =.
satip.DisabledSources =.
satip.EnableCIExtension = 0
satip.EnableEITScan = 0
satip.EnableFrontendReuse = 1
satip.OperatingMode = 3
satip.…
[View More]TransportMode = 2
Version is 2.4.1
-Carter
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