[MPlayer-dvb] cinergyT2 problems - DVB API changes?

[Robert Fendt]

Hi,

I am having problems with a cinergyT2 DVB-T card. The device is a USB2
based 'budget' card (i.e., no hw decoder, no tv-out), so it's just a dvb-t
receiver. The driver is quite new but seems to work well using scan/tzap.
xine also works, although not too stable (sigh); however, that seems to be
a xine problem. The driver does its job.

MPlayer won't work, however. Well, not using dvb://, at least. Using
"tzap -r" and running "mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0" works. But not the
'native' support. Whatever I do, it says something about tuning to the
frequency and then it's just waiting. The console shows repeated
'polling...' messages. I have not been able to get it to run with
dvbstream, either (afaik the mplayer code is based on dvbstream). I
noticed however that dvbstream seems to be more or less dead for about 2
years now; is there a possibility that the DVBAPI changed slightly so
dvbstream and MPlayer do not work anymore?

MPlayer versions I tried are 1.0pre5try2 and cvs-20041223. If someone is
interested in looking into this, I can provide logs and try out patches. I
am reasonably adept at C/C++, but I have to admit I have virtually no
knowledge about multimedia programming.

Regards,
Robert