[mythtvnz] Getting DVB-T working under Linux

[Gordon Anderson]

hi Simon

I had similar audio issues with Ubuntu 8.10 and a Hauppuage card recently -
I resolved these by installing Paul Kendall's patched version of mythtv.  I
am currently travelling and dont have access to my myth machine to double
check the details, but for some background see
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/356269 - I simply
changed my /etc/apt/sources.list file and then ran apt-get update / apt-get
upgrade

Thanks

Gordon


On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Simon Cantem <scantem at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I recently bought an Asus u3100 USB DVB-T tuner stick and I've been having
> a bit of trouble getting it running under Linux. I believe I have a fully
> functioning channels.conf file for Christchurch (I used w_scan to build it),
> and have come up against the following:
>
> * I'm running ubuntu 8.10, everything's up to date
> * The kernel finds it OK, it shows up in dmesg and an adapter is created in
> /dev/dvb
> * It works under xine - sort of. I can get TV3 to work with both video and
> audio, but with the rest of the channels I only get video (I noticed TV3
> uses a different audio codec).
> * I can't get it to work under mplayer (my player of choice), it seems to
> find it OK but I don't get any video or audio for any channels, and the
> window which usually pops up in X to display the video doesn't even appear.
> I get the following in the console:
>
> Playing dvb://TV3.
> dvb_tune Freq: 698000000
> TS file format detected.
> VIDEO MPEG2(pid=450) AUDIO MPA(pid=400) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 0
>
> * If I do a dumpstream in mplayer or cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 to a ts
> file I can't play it in mplayer, I get "codec 0x50 not found" or if I turn
> off the audio "video stream not found"
> * I've tried both mplayer 1.0rc2 in the main ubuntu repo and the latest
> version out of subversion, both without success
> * If I use Kaffeine it only finds TV3, but it plays that with both video
> and sound
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on what I can try next, reading through the
> mailing list here and on the mplayer mailing list I can't find anyone who's
> come up against this before (which makes me think I'm missing something
> really simple or it's a very difficult problem!)
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
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