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svanberg

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Registered: 2009-07-16

Posts: 88

Getting USB DVB-T work

Hi!
I got problems to use my USB DVB-T. By following this link I managed to get the right firmware for the device. I installed Kaffeine to test the device, but I got errors.

kaffeine:

kbuildsycoca running...
kaffeine: No DVB device found.
kaffeine: PLAYLIST
kaffeine: PlayList: add 1 items to playlist
kaffeine: PlayList: Check for kaffeine/noatun/m3u/pls/asx playlist
kaffeine: PlayList: Try loading kaffeine playlist
kaffeine: PlaylistImport: kaffeine: /home/martin/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine/playlists/Playlist1.kaffeine
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype ThumbCreator not found
kaffeine: Window manager: not KWin - using save fullscreen mode
kaffeine: Kaffeine:: Try to load service: xine_part
kaffeine: This is a KaffeinePart...
kaffeine: XinePart: Creating new XinePart...
kaffeine: XinePart: Using xine-config file: 
kaffeine: KXineWidget: Using default config file ~/.xine/config
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype ThumbCreator not found

dmesg:

dvb-usb: found a 'LITE-ON USB2.0 DVB-T Tuner' in warm state.
dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
DVB: registering new adapter (LITE-ON USB2.0 DVB-T Tuner)
dvb-usb: no frontend was attached by 'LITE-ON USB2.0 DVB-T Tuner'
input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.3/usb2/2-1/input/input8
dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 150 msecs.
dvb-usb: LITE-ON USB2.0 DVB-T Tuner successfully initialized and connected.
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

What can I do?

uwinkelvos

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Registered: 2009-06-07

Posts: 129

Re: Getting USB DVB-T work

you might try to use tzap (part of http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2034) and mplayer to verify your setup is acutally working.

similiar to this quide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DVB-S but instead use tzap and initial setup files for DVB-T.

svanberg

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Registered: 2009-07-16

Posts: 88

Re: Getting USB DVB-T work

Excuse me, but I'm really bad at that with TV cards and such. I am grateful for all the help I can get.

tvtime:

videoinput: Can't read frame. Error was: Invalid argument (0).
videoinput: Can't read frame. Error was: Invalid argument (0).
videoinput: Can't read frame. Error was: Invalid argument (0).
videoinput: Can't read frame. Error was: Invalid argument (0).

tvtime-scanner:

videoinput: Can't get tuner info: Invalid argument
videoinput: Driver won't tell us its norm: Invalid argument
videoinput: Can't get tuner info: Invalid argument
videoinput: Driver won't tell us its norm: Invalid argument

svanberg

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Registered: 2009-07-16

Posts: 88

Re: Getting USB DVB-T work

Hi again.   
I have now got my device to work, but my question is now how I scan for channels? Anyone?

Babets

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Registered: 2008-02-07

Posts: 47

Re: Getting USB DVB-T work

You can create an initial scan file with w_scan and then use the file created with w_scan for searching channels with scan (in the package linuxtv-dvb-apps).
Tvtime is for analog tv only, right? You can watch tv with vlc.