Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:49:49 +0200 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: Christian Kniep <kniep@videobeatz.de> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVB-C (CT-3650) with german KabelBW provider under freebsd Message-ID: <20120415144949.GA75278@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <6A785F59-A051-4F8B-8DA1-D81D7E92D03B@videobeatz.de> References: <6A785F59-A051-4F8B-8DA1-D81D7E92D03B@videobeatz.de>
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On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 03:41:46PM +0200, Christian Kniep wrote: > Hey fellows, Hi! > > I am a fresh starter with freebsd but I am pretty exited about it the last couple of days. > I bought a N36L from HP and it fits my needs perfectly. > 4x2TB as raidz1 (previously on debian with zfs-fuse) and a couple of services I am playing around with. > > My current problem is that I can't bring the CT-3650 I bought to work with vdr-1.7. > webcamd finds them and the device is created, but I could not get any DVB-C bouqet. > I try to debug this by adding some parameters, but besides the "Creating*"-output I failed. > > # webcamd -m dvb-ttusb-budget.debug=1 dvb_frontend.frontend_debug=1 dvb-pll.debug=1 ttusb_dec.debug=1 dvb-usb-init.debug=31 > Attached ugen1.4[0] to cuse unit 0 > Creating /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0 > Creating /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > Creating /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 > Creating /dev/input/event0 > To see driver messages here you need to build the webcamd port with the DEBUG knob enabled. > On my debian machine the DVB-box works fine. I also have DVB-S boxes, but no dish to test it. > I entertain suspicion that the DVB-CT box (it is for DVB-T and DVB-C) thinks it has to tune for DVB-T and not DVB-C. > But I am not sure. > Well I doubt it's that but... > Anyone who can give me a hint? > Christian > > PS: This went on for hours, even if the link specify that there should be channels waiting. > http://kbwhelpdesk.script-ecke.de/index_druck.php?site=digitalbelegung&art=technik&gebiet=A&servicetyp=FTA > # w_scan -f c -R 0 -E 0 -o 7 -Q 1 -S 0 >> channels.conf > w_scan version 20111203 (compiled for DVB API 5.1) > WARNING: could not guess your country. Falling back to 'DE' > guessing country 'DE', use -c <country> to override > using settings for GERMANY > DVB cable > DVB-C > frontend_type DVB-C, channellist 7 > output format vdr-1.7 > WARNING: could not guess your codepage. Falling back to 'UTF-8' > output charset 'UTF-8', use -C <charset> to override > Info: using DVB adapter auto detection. > /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 -> DVB-C "Philips TDA10023 DVB-C": good :-) > Using DVB-C frontend (adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) > -_-_-_-_ Getting frontend capabilities-_-_-_-_ > Using DVB API 5.2 > frontend 'Philips TDA10023 DVB-C' supports > INVERSION_AUTO > QAM_AUTO not supported, trying QAM_256. > FEC_AUTO > FREQ (55.00MHz ... 860.00MHz) > SRATE (0.458MBd ... 7.333MBd) > -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ > searching QAM256... > 73000: sr6900 (time: 00:01) OK I never could test DVB-C (only have -S2 and -T here), but I remember there was a dvb api change concerning hybrid tuners which the CT-3650 seems to be: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TechnoTrend_TT-connect_CT-3650_CI ..so it's possible you either need the symlinks mentioned in this posting, http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg43015.html or since we still have the old v4l_compat headers in ports you actually need to test with those headers and apps updated: 1. v4l_compat update: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2012-February/012847.html 2. w_scan 20120128 update: (needs updated v4l_compat) http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/w_scan-20120128-newv4lcompat.patch 3. vdr 1.7.27 update: (maybe no point in testing this if the updated w_scan still fails, tho you could test scanning using the reelchannelscan or wirbelscan plugins too; comment out PATCH_SITES PATCHFILES PATCH_DIST_STRIP in multimedia/vdr/Makefile to build with new v4l_compat headers, and if you want a correct plist also remove include/vdr/s2apiwrapper.h from multimedia/vdr/pkg-plist.) http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/vdr-ports-1.7.27-009.shar 4. webcamd 3.4.0.1 update: (may not be needed but might still possibly help) http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2012-March/012905.html Good luck! :) Juergen
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