Hi list,
I'm in the progress of migrating from a DVB-S / VDR 1.4.7 setup to a DVB-S2 TT-Premium S2-6400 setup using vdr 1.7.27 on Fedora 17, kernel 3.5.4-1.fc17.x86_64 .
I followed these instructions here
http://www.hubertus-sandmann.homepage.t-online.de/VDR.htm
to install the driver & the appropriate firmware - instructions which seem to be the same on a few other wikis.
/dev/dvb/ device entries appear and I can run vdr.
No /dev/videoX device entries are created, which means I cannot use tvtime or similar to watch vdr. Also screen grabs which relay on /dev/videoX nodes don't work either.
So two questions:
1) is lack of v4l devices a feature of the DVB-S2 driver / S2-6400 firmware, or has something gone wrong?
2) If the lack of v4l devices is a feature [or if I cannot fix the problem :-)], is it possible to view VDR output using /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 using mplayer or similar? I saw many hints on accessing this node using szap -r and mplayer, but mplayer doesn't seem to provide output while vdr is running.
Thanks in advance for any tips - I did try Google & searching the linux media list w/o success.
Sean
Hi Sean,
On 23.09.2012 13:06, Sean Carlos wrote:
So two questions:
- is lack of v4l devices a feature of the DVB-S2 driver / S2-6400
firmware, or has something gone wrong?
The video device node is missing, because it has not been implemented in the driver yet. We will hopefully see this feature in the future.
- If the lack of v4l devices is a feature [or if I cannot fix the
problem :-)], is it possible to view VDR output using /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 using mplayer or similar? I saw many hints on accessing this node using szap -r and mplayer, but mplayer doesn't seem to provide output while vdr is running.
I don't think it is possible to run "szap -r" simultaneously with VDR, to be able to access dvr0. I'd say the device is already in use then... Have you tried running szap when VDR is stopped?
Regards André
Hi André,
- is lack of v4l devices a feature of the DVB-S2 driver / S2-6400
firmware, or has something gone wrong?
The video device node is missing, because it has not been implemented in the driver yet. We will hopefully see this feature in the future.
does this mean that the S2-6400 cannot be used as video output device like the old full featured DVB-S cards at the moment?
Best regards,
André
Hi André,
On 26.09.2012 15:09, "André Schenk" wrote:
Hi André,
- is lack of v4l devices a feature of the DVB-S2 driver / S2-6400
firmware, or has something gone wrong?
The video device node is missing, because it has not been implemented in the driver yet. We will hopefully see this feature in the future.
does this mean that the S2-6400 cannot be used as video output device like the old full featured DVB-S cards at the moment?
I assume that you are/were using the old FF-card with an AV-board or at least used the cinch Video-out on the card to get the signal to your TV...
The S2-6400 has both RGB/(S-)Video-Out and HDMI-Out. So you can connect it to your TV as usual.
The /dev/dvb/adapter0/video device node however does not (yet) exist.
Regards André
Hi André,
does this mean that the S2-6400 cannot be used as video output device like the old full featured DVB-S cards at the moment?
I assume that you are/were using the old FF-card with an AV-board or at least used the cinch Video-out on the card to get the signal to your TV...
yes, you are right.
The S2-6400 has both RGB/(S-)Video-Out and HDMI-Out. So you can connect it to your TV as usual.
Ok, thanks, that is what I need.
Best regards,
André
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