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Date:      Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:42:41 +0200
From:      Milan Obuch <freebsd-multimedia@dino.sk>
To:        Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ITE Technologies, Inc. DVB-T TV Stick [success report]
Message-ID:  <20131006174241.4d8ac3f5@wind.dino.sk>
In-Reply-To: <20130909200642.GB38609@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
References:  <20130827230542.4b443eaf@zeta.dino.sk> <521D93E4.5070606@bitfrost.no> <20130828121240.7bf77ae1@zeta.dino.sk> <201309082011.r88KBbx7079350@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <20130909093044.76c70f25@zeta.dino.sk> <20130909200642.GB38609@triton8.kn-bremen.de>

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On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 22:06:42 +0200
Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 09:30:44AM +0200, Milan Obuch wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 22:11:37 +0200 (CEST)
> > Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > In article <20130828235428.45b51b76@zeta.dino.sk> you write:

[ snip ]

> > >  Btw is this a dual tuner i.e. do you get /dev/dvb/adapter0 and 1?
> > > If yes you might want to test if it can really use both tuners or
> > > if that causes stream corruptions like with my af9035 tuner.  To
> > > test this play two channels from different muxes, for example
> > > using vdr-plugin-streamdev in parallel with watching one channel
> > > via vdr-sxfe, or play two channels from different muxes both via
> > > streamdev.
> > >
> > 
> > Yes it is dual tuner, which was one reason I got this one insted of
> > some cheaper single tuner. I have not yet cable comfortably
> > available so I can not do much tests, but I will try some time
> > later. How will such corruption manifest itself? I saw on some
> > DVB-T STB some artifacts, square areas affected when signal was
> > weaker or disturbed, but could this be somehow distinguished?
> > 
> Yes that's what it looks like, you can watch the uncorrected error
> count via vdr-plugin-femon (UNC) provided the tuner driver reads
> out that info, if it does and it's non-zero artefacts are caused
> by a too weak/corrupted signal.  There also is the BER value that
> some more drivers read out, that can be nonzero and yet the errors
> may be correctable, but if it's constantly zero you can assume
> video corruptions aren't caused by the antenna signal.
> 

I am trying to test dual channel receiving, I did not find good
description how I should configure second receiver... when I changed IP
in vdr_flags from 127.0.0.1 to real one, it works locally but trying to
run vdr-sxfe on another box does not work, I got just kernel crash and
reboot. I was under impression vdr-sxfe run with argument
xvdr://IP.of.the.server should just work, which is not the case. How
should I test streamdev plugin? I would expect it should be configured
this plugin in vdr_flags... Also, what about femon plugin? How should
it be used?

On https://wiki.freebsd.org/VDR, there is some menu mentioned. When I
use vdr-sxfe, there is no menu. Where is menu mentioned on wiki located
and how could it be accessed? This is not clear at all from what's
written there...

Otherwise, it looks this device works well for usual watching, I need
to find how to do some recording (not only pressing R key in vdr-sxfe)
and how to play recorded program back.

Regards,
Milan



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