[Mplayer-dvb] MPlayer does not read stream from Skystar2 card

[Nico Sabbi]

Nico Sabbi wrote:

> Axel Schwenke wrote:
>
>> Problem: my Skystar2 DVB-S card works with all tools, except MPlayer.
>>  I stripped down my channels.conf to just one TV channel and tried to
>>  playback this TV channel using 'mplayer dvb://<channel>'. It seems
>>  MPlayer tunes successfully but gets no data stream. Tuning to this
>>  channel with szap and playback with 'mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0'
>>  works fine.
>>
>> System: SuSE Linux 9.1, vanilla Kernel 2.6.7, Technisat Skystar2 v2.6,
>>  MPlayer 1.0pre4 (tried 1.0pre5 too - same result), Satelite access
>>  via DiSeqC multiswitch
>>
>> DVB related output from dmesg
>> ----
>> DVB: registering new adapter (Technisat SkyStar2 driver).
>> probe_tuner: try to attach to Technisat SkyStar2 driver
>> drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stv0299.c: setup for tuner Samsung 
>> TBMU24112IMB
>> DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (STV0299/TSA5059/SL1935 based)...
>> ----
>>
>>
>> My channels.conf; found with the 'scan' utility and stripped down
>> to just one TV channel.
>> ----
>> ~ $cat /home/schwenke/.szap/channels.conf
>> ZDF:11953:h:1:27500:110:120
>>
>> ~ $cat /home/schwenke/.mplayer/channels.conf.sat
>> ZDF:11953:h:1:27500:110:120
>> ----
>>
>>
>>

ah, ZDF is on your SECOND lnb? in this case the fourth parameter (after 
:h:) must be 2, not 1,
as is explained in DOCS/en/xml/video.xml