Re: USB tuner and kernel.org
Mick M. wrote:
Hello list;
I recently bought an Autumn Wave OnAir HDTV USSB tuner.
Hmmm, a digital TV tuner
device.
I read the pvrusb2 driver setup information.
Is that a URL on
the web ?
Did you take care of their advice ?
Under F10 it fails with:
[root@localhost ~]# tvtime
1. you won't want to be root for playing TV.
2. tvtime: High quality video for Linux
tvtime is a high quality television application for use with video
capture cards on Linux
What that means is it is for inserting captures of analog video into
your vga output (display), it doesn't do dvb (digital tv) decoding.
[root@localhost ~]# xawtv
no video grabber device available
Again, /dev/video0 is the analog capture device -
your device probably
doesn't have one.
[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /dev/video*
ls: cannot access /dev/video*: No such file or directory
Only useful for analog
capturing tuner cards/devices.
For digital, look for:
$ ls -lR /dev/dv*
should see adapter folder, demux, dvr, frontend, net0, probably.
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
pvrusb2 138896 0
Your device module is loaded.
Did you do this manually, or add manual entries to make this device load ?
Since we want such a device to just work for all users, we can get an
entry in appropriate files to make this driver get loaded for your
particular usb device no
dvb_core 84380 1 pvrusb2
The dvb demuxer module
is loaded.
[root@localhost ~]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 11ba:1101
Is this it ?
Post the detail output for the particular device; we can't see anything
about the device yet. Since it wasn't named by lsusb, it is probable
that the device ID's are not yet in the appropriate file so that it can
be loaded automatically.
Can you find it in:
http://www.smolts.org/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/
Can you post a link to the smolts hardware database ? You get this by
running smoltSendProfile, and then the to Share your profile public link
URL is given after you send the profile.
Has anyone got this thing to work?
I have used similar (older)
tuners. Is yours brand new (ie made late
last year, early this year) ?
see So: below.
How do you compile tyhe new kernels?
Uncertain yet as to
whether you will need to compile a kernel (but if
you really do, see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel ); in any case
there is a pretty new one in updates-testing if you are sure that your
device is so new yet different from earlier devices, and that it's
support is only in the newest kernel.
Fedora does not include any digital TV viewing apps since they must
implement patented mpg2 and or mpeg4 decoding. The kernel driver for dvb
(digital video broadcasting) provides demuxing services, but not
decoding of the mpg2 streams into video frames.
So:
0. yum install dvb-apps
1. view http://rpmfusion.org/ and "enable rpm fusion on your system"
2. yum install mplayer-gui xine
3. tune the channels using the dvb-apps (basically you need the system
to create a channels.conf, this tells the applications how to
tune/display the various channels that are found at your location)
4. mplayer dvb://"ABC TV" or xine dvb://ABC TV
[3] is could be broken down into simpler steps.
DaveT.