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linux-dvb Florin Andrei 4 participants 9 messages Mar 30, 2008 – Apr 1, 2008 Media (V4L/DVB)

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Is anybody using Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus with good results on a fairly recent distribution?
The wiki says the card is supported, but I've seen reports online saying that it doesn't work very well on Linux.

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Hey,

I got it working once.
Then I had scanning problems,
now I don't have scanning problems

but szap -r "BBC THREE" for example works,
but doesn't put any data in /dev/dvb/adapter0

So I get a lock, but no data.

Don't know if this has got anything to do with the card though.

I'd suggest Ubuntu Linux.

Timothy.

Quoted 14 lines · Florin Andrei

Is anybody using Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus with good results on a fairly recent distribution?
The wiki says the card is supported, but I've seen reports online saying that it doesn't work very well on Linux.

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Quoted 10 lines · Timothy Parez

Hey,

I got it working once.
Then I had scanning problems,
now I don't have scanning problems

but szap -r "BBC THREE" for example works,
but doesn't put any data in /dev/dvb/adapter0

So I get a lock, but no data.

Shouldn't you be using /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 ?

If you have mplayer installed, try

$ mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0

whilst szap is running and has a channel lock

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#3 lore raw

Yes, I should,
just a typo in the message, that's actually what I'm doing.

dd if=/dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 of=test.mpg

the file remains empty

and mplayer returns an error

Timothy.

Quoted 12 lines · Nick Morrott
Quoted 10 lines · Timothy Parez

Hey,

I got it working once.
Then I had scanning problems,
now I don't have scanning problems

but szap -r "BBC THREE" for example works,
but doesn't put any data in /dev/dvb/adapter0

So I get a lock, but no data.

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Shouldn't you be using /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 ?

If you have mplayer installed, try

$ mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0

whilst szap is running and has a channel lock

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Quoted 4 lines · Florin Andrei

Is anybody using Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus with good results on a
fairly recent distribution?
The wiki says the card is supported, but I've seen reports online saying that it doesn't work very well on Linux.

It works absolutely fine for me on a Fedora 7 box using both MythTV and Kaffeine. Is that distro recent enough?

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#5 lore raw

Hi Nick,

Am Sonntag, den 30.03.2008, 15:52 +0000 schrieb Nick Morrott:

Quoted 9 lines · Florin Andrei
Quoted 4 lines

Is anybody using Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus with good results on a
fairly recent distribution?
The wiki says the card is supported, but I've seen reports online saying that it doesn't work very well on Linux.

It works absolutely fine for me on a Fedora 7 box using both MythTV and Kaffeine. Is that distro recent enough?

can you provide the exact kernel with "uname -a" ?

IIRC, previously was said last working kernel was 2.6.18.

This goes since long and I also don't know what to recommend people using the cx24123 with other cards and reporting issues, like with Kworld DVB-S 100 and the Geniatech DVB-S.

Thanks,
Hermann

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Quoted 10 lines · hermann pitton

Hi Nick,

Am Sonntag, den 30.03.2008, 15:52 +0000 schrieb Nick Morrott:

Quoted 6 lines · Florin Andrei
Quoted 4 lines

Is anybody using Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus with good results on a
fairly recent distribution?
The wiki says the card is supported, but I've seen reports online saying that it doesn't work very well on Linux.

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Quoted 3 lines

It works absolutely fine for me on a Fedora 7 box using both MythTV and Kaffeine. Is that distro recent enough?

can you provide the exact kernel with "uname -a" ?

Linux smithers.home 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 23:10:59 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

No problems using my card pointed at Astra 28.2E.

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Quoted 5 lines · Nick Morrott

Linux smithers.home 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 23:10:59 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

No problems using my card pointed at Astra 28.2E.

I wonder if the lesson to take home is to either use a relatively old kernel, such as 2.6.18, or a kernel as new as possible. But avoid in-between versions such as, let's say, 2.6.20

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Quoted 11 lines · Florin Andrei
Quoted 5 lines · Nick Morrott

Linux smithers.home 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 23:10:59 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

No problems using my card pointed at Astra 28.2E.

I wonder if the lesson to take home is to either use a relatively old
kernel, such as 2.6.18, or a kernel as new as possible. But avoid in-between versions such as, let's say, 2.6.20

Possibly. On the DVB wiki
(http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-S-Plus) there are reports of problems on 2.6.22.14, which is a _later_ than the one on my test machine. I guess the only real answer is try it on the distro you want, and see how it goes. It definitely does work though, and has been supported since 2006.

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