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From: Bavaria, Germany

Registered: 2010-03-22

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[SOLVED] Cannot watch DVB-T with AverMedia A309 (Afatech AF9015)

Pretty much at my wit's end. So far: Firmware is installed. dmesg | grep dvb looks fine. Installed v4l-dvb dev, even though the chip (Afatech AF9015) is apparently supported since 2007. w_scan even scans fine, finding all the channels (its output file has been copied to its proper places).

But: No program – xine, vlc, kaffeine – does a thing. They even refuse to give a meaningful error message. Xine for instance just hangs up and then crashes.

Everything works fine in Windows.

Any help, please?

dmesg | grep dvb:

dvb-usb: found a 'AVerMedia A309' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
usb 1-2: firmware: requesting dvb-usb-af9015.fw
dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-af9015.fw'
dvb-usb: found a 'AVerMedia A309' in warm state.
dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
dvb-usb: AVerMedia A309 successfully initialized and connected.
usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_af9015

edit 1: So I've fudged a bit, altering the channels.conf. mplayer now prints:

Playing dvb://phoenix.
ERROR OPENING DVR DEVICE /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0: 16
DVB_SET_CHANNEL2, COULDN'T OPEN DEVICES OF CARD: 0, EXIT
ERROR, COULDN'T SET CHANNEL  1: Failed to open dvb://phoenix.


Exiting... (End of file)
ID_EXIT=EOF

edit 2: Sigh, so it turns out that it was w_scan after all. That is, its correct parameters produced files that for whatever reason were not accepted by mplayer. Those made by scan from dvb-utils however are – I've found an older version of my region on the net, some of the channels still work! Now, if only I'd find a way to produce a  new one with scan…

edit 3: Alrighty. This solved it, i. e. produced a valid channles.conf:

w_scan -ft -c DE -x > tuning_data.txt
scan -n -o zap -p tuning_data.txt > channels.conf

Last edited by misc (2010-07-05 20:52:34)