hvr4000 doesnt work w/ dvb-s2 nor DVB-T
hi,
i have a happauge HVR4000 and all works fine, analogue TV and DVB-S was tested by me so, all would be fine except the fact, that there is DVB-S2 support noted on the wiki
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-4000 site.
so basically my question is, what makes you think, that HVR4000 is able to play DVB-S2 streams when it doesn't?!
so I have tried this out, run w_scan which printed me also all the DVB-S2 channels out and provided me a tuning list (channels.conf) and then I tried to tune in w/ "szap-s2 -S 1 -c ~/.mplayer/channels.conf ZDFHD"
the output is:
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zapping to 1 'ZDFHD':
delivery DVB-S2, modulation 8PSK (i tried QPSK as well) sat 0, frequency 11361 MHz H, symbolrate 22000000, coderate auto, rolloff 0.35 vpid 0x17de, apid 0x17e8, sid 0x2b66
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
status 01 | signal dbc0 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 03 | signal db40 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 01 | signal dbc0 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 01 | signal dbc0 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 |
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so, and that is basically the same as w/ my old NOVA-S CL.
the fact, that he is not able to get a lock tells me, that there is no DVB-S2 kind of thing on this HVR4000 and I bought my card for nothing, except that now I have a newer card, w/ FM and analog TV, maybe DVB-T as well, but i tested that one as well and it doesn't work as well, so I wouldn't say that that card is able to do DVB-T as well.
there are USB sticks, like my VOLAR-HD or my Equinox Tube, that ones do DVB-T really, but not this HVR4000, so it is a 3in1 card w/ DVB-S, analog TV and FM, at best, as long as I don't know if FM works.
here some data (first lspci -v and then dmesg):
05:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV HVR-4000-HD Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18 Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: cx8800
Kernel modules: cx8800
05:02.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [Audio Port] (rev 05) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Device 6902 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18 Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: cx88_audio
Kernel modules: cx88-alsa
05:02.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV HVR-4000-HD Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18 Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: cx88-mpeg driver manager Kernel modules: cx8802
05:02.4 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [IR Port] (rev 05) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV HVR-4000-HD Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 7 Memory at f9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-cx24116.fw)... cx88-mpeg driver manager 0000:05:02.2: firmware:
requesting dvb-fe-cx24116.fw cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload(2)... cx24116_load_firmware: FW version 1.26.90.0cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Firmware upload completecx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-cx24116.fw)... cx88-mpeg driver manager 0000:05:02.2: firmware:
requesting dvb-fe-cx24116.fw cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload(2)... cx24116_load_firmware: FW version 1.26.90.0cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Firmware upload completecx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-cx24116.fw)... cx88-mpeg driver manager 0000:05:02.2: firmware:
requesting dvb-fe-cx24116.fw cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload(2)... cx24116_load_firmware: FW version 1.26.90.0cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Firmware upload completecx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-cx24116.fw)... cx88-mpeg driver manager 0000:05:02.2: firmware:
requesting dvb-fe-cx24116.fw cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload(2)... cx24116_load_firmware: FW version 1.26.90.0cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Firmware upload completecx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-cx24116.fw)... cx88-mpeg driver manager 0000:05:02.2: firmware:
requesting dvb-fe-cx24116.fw cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload(2)... cx24116_load_firmware: FW version 1.26.90.0cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Firmware upload completecx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-cx24116.fw)... cx88-mpeg driver manager 0000:05:02.2: firmware:
requesting dvb-fe-cx24116.fw cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload(2)... cx24116_load_firmware: FW version 1.26.90.0cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Firmware upload completecx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-cx24116.fw)... cx88-mpeg driver manager 0000:05:02.2: firmware:
requesting dvb-fe-cx24116.fw cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload(2)... cx24116_load_firmware: FW version 1.26.90.0cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Firmware upload complete
Quoted 2 lines · Lars Schotte
so basically my question is, what makes you think, that HVR4000 is able to play DVB-S2 streams when it doesn't?!
Well, the fact that the developer who added the Linux S2-API support did it for that card would be a pretty good indicator that it should work.
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so I have tried this out, run
w_scanwhich printed me also all the DVB-S2 channels out and provided me a tuning list (channels.conf) and then I tried to tune in w/ "szap-s2 -S 1 -c~/.mplayer/channels.confZDFHD"
If w_scan gave you a channel list, that is a pretty good sign that the card is working. You probably are just feeding the zap tool the wrong arguments (something which someone who has more familiarity than I do with dvb-s2 would probably be able to help you with.
Devin
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Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com
thanks for your response. really!
its a pretty good sign, but as long as i have no stream running its worth nothing.
and Yes, I used szap-s2 and was careful about what it answerd. so I am sure that it was all right.
Quoted 21 lines · On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 21:33:24 -0400 Devin Heitmueller…
Quoted 2 lines · Lars Schotte
so basically my question is, what makes you think, that HVR4000 is able to play DVB-S2 streams when it doesn't?!
Well, the fact that the developer who added the Linux S2-API support did it for that card would be a pretty good indicator that it should work.
Quoted 4 lines
so I have tried this out, run
w_scanwhich printed me also all the DVB-S2 channels out and provided me a tuning list (channels.conf) and then I tried to tune in w/ "szap-s2 -S 1 -c~/.mplayer/channels.confZDFHD"If
w_scangave you a channel list, that is a pretty good sign that the card is working. You probably are just feeding the zap tool the wrong arguments (something which someone who has more familiarity than I do with dvb-s2 would probably be able to help you with.Devin