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

Nico Sabbi nsabbi at tiscali.it
Thu Dec 23 16:20:18 CET 2004


Robert Fendt wrote:

>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
>  
>

yes, please post the log of mplayer -v dvb:// and  the content of your 
~/.mplayer/channels.conf




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