[opensuse] Hauppauge 900H DVB-T and scanning for analog channels?
I have been working with my Hauppauge WinTV900H USB stick DVB-T tuner (phew, that;'s a mouthful). I managed to get it "working" in openSUSE 11.3 by installing the v4l/dvb stuff from the repositories, copying an xc3028L-v36.fw file (I found/downloaded) to /lib/firmware, and doing a modprobe tm6000. I have connected the input for the USB stick to the cable TV outlet. The cable provider has 52 analog channels that this 900H can pickup/tune in Windows. If I tell it (in Windows) to scan for DVB-T, it finds nothing, but if I tell it to scan for cable analog channels, it finds the 52 available channels. This is expected since the signal on the cable feed is analog. So... now that I've got the tuner working in Linux (as in recognized and switched on, ready to be used) how do I convince it to scan for the 52 analog channels instead of the default DVB-T channels? scan <location> -o zap | tee ~/channels.conf just ends in "tuning failed" errors when it can't find a signal at the predefined frequencies in the location file.... which I suppose makes sense since the "T" and analog are not the same thing I tinkered with TVTime, MeTV, and VLC... and all can find the 900H, and all scan the T side for channels but do not scan the analog part... or at least I can't find a way to scan for analog. Has anyone got this far with a 900H? Any tips? Anyone know of a way to switch on/scan the analog side of the 900H in Linux? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 10/23/2010 1:00 AM, C wrote:
I have been working with my Hauppauge WinTV900H USB stick DVB-T tuner (phew, that;'s a mouthful). I managed to get it "working" in openSUSE 11.3 by installing the v4l/dvb stuff from the repositories, copying an xc3028L-v36.fw file (I found/downloaded) to /lib/firmware, and doing a modprobe tm6000.
I have connected the input for the USB stick to the cable TV outlet. The cable provider has 52 analog channels that this 900H can pickup/tune in Windows. If I tell it (in Windows) to scan for DVB-T, it finds nothing, but if I tell it to scan for cable analog channels, it finds the 52 available channels. This is expected since the signal on the cable feed is analog.
So... now that I've got the tuner working in Linux (as in recognized and switched on, ready to be used) how do I convince it to scan for the 52 analog channels instead of the default DVB-T channels?
scan <location> -o zap | tee ~/channels.conf just ends in "tuning failed" errors when it can't find a signal at the predefined frequencies in the location file.... which I suppose makes sense since the "T" and analog are not the same thing
I tinkered with TVTime, MeTV, and VLC... and all can find the 900H, and all scan the T side for channels but do not scan the analog part... or at least I can't find a way to scan for analog.
Has anyone got this far with a 900H? Any tips? Anyone know of a way to switch on/scan the analog side of the 900H in Linux?
C.
You would probably be better off on the Myth TV list. Are you sure you have analog on your cable? -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 22:47, John Andersen wrote:
You would probably be better off on the Myth TV list.
I'll poke around over there.. have to tinker with MythTV a bit on my own first though.
Are you sure you have analog on your cable?
Yes. I've got three possible feeds... DVB-T via the DVB antenna, and analog and digital from my cable provider. DVB-T works fine, and I get the 10 local free to air digital broadcasts using the Hauppauge WinTV 900H and the external DVB-T antenna. My cable TV provider has 52 channels on analog and 196 channels of digital provided at the cable tv outlet on the wall. This is the bit I cannot get to work yet. If I boot to Windows, and start the WinTV software (provided by Hauppauge), I can choose between scanning the input on the DVB-T antenna - finding the 10 local channels - or I can scan for analog channels (the tuner cannot tune the digital cable channels, and I'm not trying to connect to that in either Windows or Linux). When I scan for analog, I see the 52 channels my TV can see (without the digital receiver). So.. testing on Windows shows that this DVB stick can see both the DVB-T and analog (which makes sense because that's what this hybrid tuner is supposed to be able to do). So back to openSUSE. I plug it in, and it's recognized (uses the tm6000 kernel module). I can scan for and find the 8 to 10 DVB-T channels... this works... what I can't figure out how to do is scan for the analog channels. TVTime can't find the tuner stick at all. I haven't really tried MythTV yet. VLC finds the stick and scans but I can't find a way to tell it to scan for analog. So this is where I'm stuck... the hardware works, but I can't find the right software combination to get it working on the analog side. C,. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 24/10/2010 18:30, C wrote:
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 22:47, John Andersen wrote:
You would probably be better off on the Myth TV list.
I'll poke around over there.. have to tinker with MythTV a bit on my own first though.
Are you sure you have analog on your cable?
Yes.
TVTime can't find the tuner stick at all. I haven't really tried MythTV yet. VLC finds the stick and scans but I can't find a way to tell it to scan for analog. I don't use what you have so am not able to give a definitive answer but I do use xine and vlc.
Both vlc and xine use the same channles.conf file for their DVB-T channels. Possibly - but I do not know this - what you are using could also use something produced for xine/vlc. The channel scan for xine/vlc is generated by the app. w-scan. Read the doc for w-scan to see if it would meet your requierements. For *ME*, for xine and vlc, I run w_scan -c AU -X > <output-file-name> [NOTE the w_scan and not w-scan] where "-c AU" stands for AUstralia, the "-X" stands for "xine format output"; and in the vlc command line which starts vlc I add "......<full-path-to-output-file name> as in "vlc %U /home/<name>/.xine/channels.conf". BC -- After two days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. W C Fields -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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