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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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