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Date:      Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:23:01 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with webcamd and RTL2832U
Message-ID:  <5721BA55.7030701@selasky.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160428071242.GB22731@eureka.lemis.com>
References:  <20160427080137.GQ15485@eureka.lemis.com> <57207F55.2040309@selasky.org> <20160428071242.GB22731@eureka.lemis.com>

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On 04/28/16 09:12, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 10:59:01 +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> On 04/27/16 10:01, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>> I'm trying to set up MythTV on a 10.2-STABLE system using an RTL2832U
>>> class tuner and webcamd webcamd-4.2.0.9.  The tuner probes as:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Any ideas how to corner the problem?
>>
>> 1) Check that you have only one instance of webcamd running.
>
> Yes, of course.  I also checked that I did have one instance of
> webcamd running.  In some cases it writes an error message to
> /dev/null and then exits with status 0, and there's no way to know it
> has exited.  I'll send private mail with patches.
>
>> 2) Test device with w_scan utility (from ports) first.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  That works, so I suppose it's a MythTV
> problem.
>
>> 3) MythTV: ensure you configure correctly DVB-T / S / S2 and so on.
>
> Done.  But at least I'm closing in.
>
> You didn't address:
>
>>> I don't see any mention of rtl28xxu in current documentation, and
>>> no way to specify a driver in the man page.  Can I assume that this
>>> is an undocumented change?

Hi,

rtl28xxu works. I have one myself, tested with VDR.

Maybe you need to disable the DISEQ feature.

--HPS



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