[mythtvnz] HVR4000 and DVB-S/DVB-T

[Steven Ellis]

On Sat, February 9, 2008 3:57 pm, Craig Whitmore wrote:
> Well I finally have got my HVR4000 working with DVB-S and DVB-T (they
> can't be used at the same time), but you can switch between them by just
> choosing them.
> This is via a number of patches
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-4000
>
> And mine
> http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2008-January/023416.html (via
> multiproto S/S2) or
> http://dev.kewl.org/hauppauge/ (single and multi frontend pathes based
> with no multi proto S/S2) (only S)
>
> I have
>
> media1:/dev/dvb/adapter0# ls -la
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      200 2008-02-07 23:12 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root       80 2008-02-07 23:28 ..
> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212,  4 2008-02-07 23:12 demux0
> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 20 2008-02-07 23:12 demux1
> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212,  5 2008-02-07 23:12 dvr0
> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 21 2008-02-07 23:12 dvr1
> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212,  3 2008-02-07 23:12 frontend0
> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 19 2008-02-07 23:12 frontend1
> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212,  7 2008-02-07 23:12 net0
> crw-rw---- 1 root video 212, 23 2008-02-07 23:12 net1
>
> and because mythtv doesn't allow you use use the *1 interface I had to
>
> media1:/dev/dvb/adapter1# ls -la
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 2008-02-07 23:29 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  80 2008-02-07 23:28 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  24 2008-02-07 23:29 demux0 ->
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  22 2008-02-07 23:28 dvr0 -> /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  27 2008-02-07 23:28 frontend0 ->
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  22 2008-02-07 23:28 net0 -> /dev/dvb/adapter0/net1
>
> So mythtv sees basically 2 cards.
>
> so I went into the mythtv setup.. and imported the channels.conf file. It
> makes a mess so you have to delete all the channels again delete the wrong
> transports and then scan the existing transports and then I have all the
> channels.
>
> So what can I watch.. well. I can see the HD Sony demos playing on a
> number of channels (Picture only but they look impressive.. I dunno what
> codec they are using for the Audio, but I can't hear it under windows
> either.. anyone know? and the other channels just crash mythtv
>

Great work Craig.

The audio is HE-AAC. I've got it working in mplayer now, need to look at
MythTV patches.

The other channels crash due to the interlaced H.264 variant they are
running. MythTV SVN Trunk should have patches now to prevent the crash,
but there will be video artifact issues.

Steve

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