Hi there,
I have an Air2PC Skystar 2 card and a Twinhan 1020a. I've been using the Twinhan for several years now with VDR and am quite happy with how its working.
I recently added the Air2PC card. Both are seen by the OS: 00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 00:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 00:0c.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02)
The twinhan is under /dev/dvb/adapter0 and the Air2PC is under /dev/dvb/adapter1.
VDR verion 1.4.1-3
I confirmed in my sources.conf that I have an entry for C Cable. Would that be what to use for ATSC Cable (North America)?
This is the single channel line I'm using to try and get this working: :@6 A-Channel:729:C0M256:C:0:21:24:0:1:6:0:0:0 Details are: Freq (Mhz) 729.0 QAM_256 C Video PID 21 Audio PID 24 CA 1 (for card number 1? -- does this start at 0? I've tried different numbers here) SID 6 (Same as channel I believe)
Every attempt to change to this channel results in a "Channel not Available".
Any suggestions??
Thanks in advance! Norm
Have you made any progress on this?
I've been waiting for someone to respond - if you can get the card working, I'd consider getting one ----- Original Message ----- From: "mlists" mlists@dressler.ca To: "VDR Mailing List" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:51 AM Subject: [vdr] VDR with ATSC card -- need help
Hi there,
I have an Air2PC Skystar 2 card and a Twinhan 1020a. I've been using the Twinhan for several years now with VDR and am quite happy with how its working.
I recently added the Air2PC card. Both are seen by the OS: 00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 00:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 00:0c.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02)
The twinhan is under /dev/dvb/adapter0 and the Air2PC is under /dev/dvb/adapter1.
VDR verion 1.4.1-3
I confirmed in my sources.conf that I have an entry for C Cable. Would that be what to use for ATSC Cable (North America)?
This is the single channel line I'm using to try and get this working: :@6 A-Channel:729:C0M256:C:0:21:24:0:1:6:0:0:0 Details are: Freq (Mhz) 729.0 QAM_256 C Video PID 21 Audio PID 24 CA 1 (for card number 1? -- does this start at 0? I've tried different numbers here) SID 6 (Same as channel I believe)
Every attempt to change to this channel results in a "Channel not Available".
Any suggestions??
Thanks in advance! Norm
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Sadly, no. I picked this card up on Ebay for $30 *S* so if it works out then great! Solves my analog issues too.
Can anyone offer a suggestion on this problem? I have tried to limit vdr to only looking at the ATSC card and it made no difference.
Norm
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 08:40 -0700, Simon Baxter wrote:
Have you made any progress on this?
I've been waiting for someone to respond - if you can get the card working, I'd consider getting one ----- Original Message ----- From: "mlists" mlists@dressler.ca To: "VDR Mailing List" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:51 AM Subject: [vdr] VDR with ATSC card -- need help
Hi there,
I have an Air2PC Skystar 2 card and a Twinhan 1020a. I've been using the Twinhan for several years now with VDR and am quite happy with how its working.
I recently added the Air2PC card. Both are seen by the OS: 00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 00:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 00:0c.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02)
The twinhan is under /dev/dvb/adapter0 and the Air2PC is under /dev/dvb/adapter1.
VDR verion 1.4.1-3
I confirmed in my sources.conf that I have an entry for C Cable. Would that be what to use for ATSC Cable (North America)?
This is the single channel line I'm using to try and get this working: :@6 A-Channel:729:C0M256:C:0:21:24:0:1:6:0:0:0 Details are: Freq (Mhz) 729.0 QAM_256 C Video PID 21 Audio PID 24 CA 1 (for card number 1? -- does this start at 0? I've tried different numbers here) SID 6 (Same as channel I believe)
Every attempt to change to this channel results in a "Channel not Available".
Any suggestions??
Thanks in advance! Norm
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On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 20:38 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
mlists wrote:
I confirmed in my sources.conf that I have an entry for C Cable. Would that be what to use for ATSC Cable (North America)?
VDR doesn't currently support ATSC.
Doh -- are there any plans on supporting ATSC QAM_256 in the future?
Mlists wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 20:38 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
mlists wrote:
I confirmed in my sources.conf that I have an entry for C Cable. Would that be what to use for ATSC Cable (North America)?
VDR doesn't currently support ATSC.
Doh -- are there any plans on supporting ATSC QAM_256 in the future?
Depends on what it takes to do that. Is this just another modulation type that needs to be set, or is this totally different from the DVB standard with respect to the SI data etc.?
Klaus
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 22:23 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Mlists wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 20:38 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
mlists wrote:
I confirmed in my sources.conf that I have an entry for C Cable. Would that be what to use for ATSC Cable (North America)?
VDR doesn't currently support ATSC.
Doh -- are there any plans on supporting ATSC QAM_256 in the future?
Depends on what it takes to do that. Is this just another modulation type that needs to be set, or is this totally different from the DVB standard with respect to the SI data etc.?
From what I see you already support the modulation (256). I'm not
familiar enough with ATSC to know if it's more then that. It is DVB from what I understand. I use DVB tools with it. It's supported in MythTV using the same DVB card type as satellite dvb cards. Does any of that help?
Norm
From what Im reading, the air2pc ATSC card only supports 8VSB, no
support for QAM at all.
Mlists wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 22:23 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Mlists wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 20:38 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
mlists wrote:
I confirmed in my sources.conf that I have an entry for C Cable. Would that be what to use for ATSC Cable (North America)?
VDR doesn't currently support ATSC.
Doh -- are there any plans on supporting ATSC QAM_256 in the future?
Depends on what it takes to do that. Is this just another modulation type that needs to be set, or is this totally different from the DVB standard with respect to the SI data etc.?
From what I see you already support the modulation (256). I'm not
familiar enough with ATSC to know if it's more then that. It is DVB from what I understand. I use DVB tools with it. It's supported in MythTV using the same DVB card type as satellite dvb cards. Does any of that help?
Norm
vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 22:06 -0400, Dave wrote:
From what Im reading, the air2pc ATSC card only supports 8VSB, no
support for QAM at all.
hmm... but this is what I get with dvbsnoop:
dvbsnoop -s feinfo -adapter 1 dvbsnoop V1.4.00 -- http://dvbsnoop.sourceforge.net/
--------------------------------------------------------- FrontEnd Info... ---------------------------------------------------------
Device: /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0
Basic capabilities: Name: "Broadcom BCM3510 VSB/QAM frontend" Frontend-type: unkonwn Frequency (min): 54000.000 Frequency (max): 803000.000 Frequency stepsiz: 0.000 Frequency tolerance: 0 Symbol rate (min): 0.000000 MSym/s Symbol rate (max): 0.000000 MSym/s Symbol rate tolerance: 0 ppm Notifier delay: 0 ms Frontend capabilities: auto inversion FEC 1/2 FEC 2/3 FEC 3/4 FEC 5/6 FEC 7/8 FEC AUTO QAM 16 QAM 64 QAM 128 QAM 256
Current parameters: Error(95): frontend ioctl: Operation not supported
Damn, maybe this is only the frontend too -- perhaps I have a card I can't use.
Norm
yea the frontend supports it, but its otherwise useless.
Mlists wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 22:06 -0400, Dave wrote:
From what Im reading, the air2pc ATSC card only supports 8VSB, no
support for QAM at all.
hmm... but this is what I get with dvbsnoop:
dvbsnoop -s feinfo -adapter 1 dvbsnoop V1.4.00 -- http://dvbsnoop.sourceforge.net/
FrontEnd Info...
Device: /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0
Basic capabilities: Name: "Broadcom BCM3510 VSB/QAM frontend" Frontend-type: unkonwn Frequency (min): 54000.000 Frequency (max): 803000.000 Frequency stepsiz: 0.000 Frequency tolerance: 0 Symbol rate (min): 0.000000 MSym/s Symbol rate (max): 0.000000 MSym/s Symbol rate tolerance: 0 ppm Notifier delay: 0 ms Frontend capabilities: auto inversion FEC 1/2 FEC 2/3 FEC 3/4 FEC 5/6 FEC 7/8 FEC AUTO QAM 16 QAM 64 QAM 128 QAM 256
Current parameters: Error(95): frontend ioctl: Operation not supported
Damn, maybe this is only the frontend too -- perhaps I have a card I can't use.
Norm
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Mlists wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 22:23 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Mlists wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 20:38 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
mlists wrote:
I confirmed in my sources.conf that I have an entry for C Cable. Would that be what to use for ATSC Cable (North America)?
VDR doesn't currently support ATSC.
Doh -- are there any plans on supporting ATSC QAM_256 in the future?
Depends on what it takes to do that. Is this just another modulation type that needs to be set, or is this totally different from the DVB standard with respect to the SI data etc.?
From what I see you already support the modulation (256). I'm not
familiar enough with ATSC to know if it's more then that. It is DVB from what I understand. I use DVB tools with it. It's supported in MythTV using the same DVB card type as satellite dvb cards. Does any of that help?
I just came across an older posting from Clem Herbert vdrhaxr@yahoo.com that suggested something in that direction.
See http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2006-March/008418.html
Klaus
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 14:52 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Mlists wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 22:23 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Mlists wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 20:38 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
mlists wrote:
I confirmed in my sources.conf that I have an entry for C Cable. Would that be what to use for ATSC Cable (North America)?
VDR doesn't currently support ATSC.
Doh -- are there any plans on supporting ATSC QAM_256 in the future?
Depends on what it takes to do that. Is this just another modulation type that needs to be set, or is this totally different from the DVB standard with respect to the SI data etc.?
From what I see you already support the modulation (256). I'm not
familiar enough with ATSC to know if it's more then that. It is DVB from what I understand. I use DVB tools with it. It's supported in MythTV using the same DVB card type as satellite dvb cards. Does any of that help?
I just came across an older posting from Clem Herbert vdrhaxr@yahoo.com that suggested something in that direction.
See http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2006-March/008418.html
Klaus
Alas, I don't believe my card supports QAM256 as was first indicated. So I guess this one goes back up on Ebay and I search for another decent card.
Norm
Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Mlists wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 22:23 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Mlists wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 20:38 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
mlists wrote:
I confirmed in my sources.conf that I have an entry for C Cable. Would that be what to use for ATSC Cable (North America)?
VDR doesn't currently support ATSC.
Doh -- are there any plans on supporting ATSC QAM_256 in the future?
Depends on what it takes to do that. Is this just another modulation type that needs to be set, or is this totally different from the DVB standard with respect to the SI data etc.?
From what I see you already support the modulation (256). I'm not
familiar enough with ATSC to know if it's more then that. It is DVB from what I understand. I use DVB tools with it. It's supported in MythTV using the same DVB card type as satellite dvb cards. Does any of that help?
I just came across an older posting from Clem Herbert vdrhaxr@yahoo.com that suggested something in that direction.
See http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2006-March/008418.html
Klaus
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There was also work done to VDR to get DVB 8PSK working as well. Its quite successful here in North American HDTV Satellite used with an external usb device called a genpix.
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