Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:12:40 +0200 From: Milan Obuch <freebsd-multimedia@dino.sk> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@bitfrost.no> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ITE Technologies, Inc. DVB-T TV Stick Message-ID: <20130828121240.7bf77ae1@zeta.dino.sk> In-Reply-To: <521D93E4.5070606@bitfrost.no> References: <20130827230542.4b443eaf@zeta.dino.sk> <521D93E4.5070606@bitfrost.no>
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On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:08:36 +0200 Hans Petter Selasky <hps@bitfrost.no> wrote: > On 08/27/13 23:05, Milan Obuch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > today I got ITE Technologies, Inc. DVB-T TV Stick and would like to > > use it under FreeBSD. As I did not try anything like this before, I > > would like some help here. First what I did... > > > > Some product info is on http://www.notonlytv.net/p_lv52t.html - not > > much, as usual. > > > > Device presents itself in dmesg/console after connecting like this: > > > > ugen4.3: <ITE Technologies, Inc.> at usbus4 > > uhid0: <ITE Technologies, Inc. DVB-T TV Stick, class 0/0, rev > > 2.00/2.00, addr 3> on usbus4 > > [ snip ] > > As I already have webcamd installed, I just tried run webcamd and > > got it: > > > > # kldload cuse4bd > > # webcamd > > Attached to ugen4.3[0] > > Loading firmware at '/boot/modules/dvb-usb-it9135-01.fw', f=7 > > Creating /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0 > > Creating /dev/dvb/adapter1/demux0 > > Creating /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > > Creating /dev/dvb/adapter1/dvr0 > > Creating /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 > > Creating /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0 > > > > Firmware obtained before was put into /boot/modules and some devices > > were presented. Now the question is, how could I use it. Some time > > ago I did some test with simple webcam, where I could use pwcview > > to see image from camera, however it is of no use here, I got just > > > > % pwcview -d /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 > > Failed to get current picture info: Device not configured > > % pwcview -d /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0 > > Failed to get current picture info: Invalid argument > > % pwcview -d /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > > Failed to get current picture info: Invalid argument > > Hi, > > Looks like your device is detected and ready to use! > > pwcview is not suitable for DVB devices. Try using vlc compiled with > DVB/V4L support instead. It should first scan all the channels, and > then you will get a channel list which you can tune to. Else also try > w_scan from ports. > Yes, looks so - and today i did a multimedia/vdr build according to https://wiki.freebsd.org/VDR - it seems like it will work. I need to go through some trial-and-error process to learn a bit about it. I will try vlc too, so I can gai some experience with it. In any case, to me it looks like this device could be added to https://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat page - so other will be informed better than me yesterday :) Thanks for comment/hint. Milan
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