[Klug-general] Re: Help with Linux TV Server (Myth) Needed?

[Karl Buckland]

Hi Peter,

I'm glad you found a solution. Myth can deal with cards with multiple tuners
- I have a Hauppauge DVB-T-500 and that has 1 input and two tuners. I guess
it depends more on the driver than anything else though, right?

Could you not write a startup script to automate those commands? I don't
know enough about udev to be able to answer your question...

Karl


2008/6/16 Peter Childs <peterachilds at gmail.com>:

> 2008/6/14 Peter Childs <peterachilds at gmail.com>:
> > Following a great demonstration of what Myth can do at the meet hmm
> > now some two weeks ago, I decided to have another go at getting a box
> > up and running, here we go
> >
> > Its a dual core AMD 64 bit machine with 2Gb of memory with two hmm
> > 300Gb hard disks and Hauppauge tv card in. Microsoft Remote.
> >
> > The TV card is a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1100 DVB-T/Hybrid which Linux
> > detects as a Conexant CX22702. Ok so far.
> >
> > Ubuntu, 8.04 will not tune using it detects it fine, but can't get a
> > channel lock (Windows can so one does exists as does a digital box so
> > that's not the problem) After a bit of web searching I turned off HAL
> > and hmm it can now "Lock" but can't find any channels says its got
> > about a 27% signal quality too. Currently I've got Mythubuntu 8.04
> > installed.
> >
> > Knoppmyth will not even boot, gets stuck detecting hardware.
> >
> > This is all using 32bit versions, I still don't trust 64bit stuff yet,
> > But I spouse I could try that if people think it will help.
> >
> > If you need any more details tell me what and I try and find it. I'm
> > usually quite advanced at Linux stuff, but this ones got me stumped
> >
> > Any Help?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Peter Childs
> >
>
> Not sure if this message got lost, also not sure where. Anyway after a
> lot more poking around on the internet, Discovered a patch for v4l
> which meant recompile v4l from source.
>
> I'm now running Mythbuntu 64bit with a patched version of v4l (must
> take a note of where I got the patch from!)
>
> This patch creates two dvb frontends in the same adapter folder, which
> work fine in kaffine but not in myth. Ie both tuners turn up in
> /dev/dvb/adapter0, first one ending in 0 (thats the satelite one) and
> second ending in 1 (thats the Terrestrial one) eg
> /dev/dvd/adapter0/demux1
>
> In Myth it works if I first hmm
>
> mkdir /dev/dvb/adapter1
> ln -s /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux1 /dev/dvb/adapter1/demux0
> ln -s /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr1 /dev/dvb/adapter1/dvr0
> ln -s /dev/dvb/adapter0/net1 /dev/dvb/adapter1/net1
> ln -s /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1 /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0
>
> Myth can then be restarted and works. (So long as you don't try and
> use the satellite tune at the same time (Don't have a sat so don't
> care)
>
> How do I tell udev to do this automatically. I think this is strictly
> a bug in Myth that it can't cope with dvb cards with multiple
> frontends (dvb frontends not to be confused with Myth frontends they
> are completely different)
>
> Oh its a HVR3000 tri-tuner card is that helps
>
> Regards
>
> Peter.
>
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