[MPlayer-users] svn head breaks PCHDTV HD-5500

[Nico Sabbi]

On Thursday 29 January 2009 08:45:01 Mike Mohr wrote:
> mplayer-users,
>
> I own a pcHDTV HD-5500 DTV capture card.  It seems that support for
> this card was broken a while ago.  I recently updated from
> mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1.ebuild to mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28288.ebuild.
> With the former ebuild, everything works as expected and I get nice
> DTV video.  With the latter, I get this output:
>
> mohr at rosetta ~ $ mplayer dvb://ION
> MPlayer dev-SVN-r28288-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2216 (Family: 15, Model:
> 65, Stepping: 2)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> 131 audio & 274 video codecs
>
> Playing dvb://ION.
> UNKNOWN TUNER TYPE
> DVB CONFIGURATION IS EMPTY, exit
> Failed to open dvb://ION.
>
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
>
> I've also built svn revision 28387 (svn head as of Jan 28, 2009
> 11:40 PM PST) and I get nearly identical output:
>
> mohr at rosetta ~/mplayer $ ./mplayer dvb://ION
> MPlayer SVN-r28387-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2216 (Family: 15, Model:
> 65, Stepping: 2)
> 131 audio & 274 video codecs
>
> Playing dvb://ION.
> UNKNOWN TUNER TYPE
> DVB CONFIGURATION IS EMPTY, exit
> Failed to open dvb://ION.
>

run it again with -v and search in the ouput of dmesg the description 
of the DVB/ATSC tuner type