[linux-dvb] Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus

[linux-dvb] Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus

[Florin Andrei]

Is anybody using Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus with good results on a 
fairly recent distribution?
The wiki says the card is supported, but I've seen reports online saying 
that it doesn't work very well on Linux.

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Re: [linux-dvb] Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus

[Timothy Parez]

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Hey,

I got it working once.
Then I had scanning problems,
now I don't have scanning problems

but szap -r "BBC THREE"     for example works,
but doesn't put any data in /dev/dvb/adapter0

So I get a lock, but no data.

Don't know if this has got anything to do with the card though.

I'd suggest Ubuntu Linux.


Timothy.

On 30 Mar 2008, at 01:53, Florin Andrei wrote:

> Is anybody using Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus with good results on a
> fairly recent distribution?
> The wiki says the card is supported, but I've seen reports online  
> saying
> that it doesn't work very well on Linux.
>
> -- 
> Florin Andrei
>
> http://florin.myip.org/
>
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Re: [linux-dvb] Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus

[Nick Morrott]

On 30/03/2008, Florin Andrei <florin@andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> Is anybody using Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus with good results on a
>  fairly recent distribution?
>  The wiki says the card is supported, but I've seen reports online saying
>  that it doesn't work very well on Linux.

It works absolutely fine for me on a Fedora 7 box using both MythTV
and Kaffeine. Is that distro recent enough?

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Re: [linux-dvb] Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus

[hermann pitton]

Hi Nick,

Am Sonntag, den 30.03.2008, 15:52 +0000 schrieb Nick Morrott:
> On 30/03/2008, Florin Andrei <florin@andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> > Is anybody using Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus with good results on a
> >  fairly recent distribution?
> >  The wiki says the card is supported, but I've seen reports online saying
> >  that it doesn't work very well on Linux.
> 
> It works absolutely fine for me on a Fedora 7 box using both MythTV
> and Kaffeine. Is that distro recent enough?
> 

can you provide the exact kernel with "uname -a" ?

IIRC, previously was said last working kernel was 2.6.18.

This goes since long and I also don't know what to recommend people
using the cx24123 with other cards and reporting issues, like with
Kworld DVB-S 100 and the Geniatech DVB-S.

Thanks,
Hermann



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Re: [linux-dvb] Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus

[Nick Morrott]

On 30/03/2008, hermann pitton <hermann-pitton@arcor.de> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
>  Am Sonntag, den 30.03.2008, 15:52 +0000 schrieb Nick Morrott:
>
> > On 30/03/2008, Florin Andrei <florin@andrei.myip.org> wrote:
>  > > Is anybody using Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus with good results on a
>  > >  fairly recent distribution?
>  > >  The wiki says the card is supported, but I've seen reports online saying
>  > >  that it doesn't work very well on Linux.
>  >
>  > It works absolutely fine for me on a Fedora 7 box using both MythTV
>  > and Kaffeine. Is that distro recent enough?
>  >
>
>
> can you provide the exact kernel with "uname -a" ?

Linux smithers.home 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 23:10:59 EDT
2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

No problems using my card pointed at Astra 28.2E.

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Re: [linux-dvb] Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus

[Florin Andrei]

Nick Morrott wrote:
> 
> Linux smithers.home 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 23:10:59 EDT
> 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> No problems using my card pointed at Astra 28.2E.

I wonder if the lesson to take home is to either use a relatively old 
kernel, such as 2.6.18, or a kernel as new as possible. But avoid 
in-between versions such as, let's say, 2.6.20

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Re: [linux-dvb] Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus

[Nick Morrott]

On 30/03/2008, Timothy Parez <timothyparez@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I got it working once.
> Then I had scanning problems,
> now I don't have scanning problems
>
> but szap -r "BBC THREE"     for example works,
> but doesn't put any data in /dev/dvb/adapter0
>
> So I get a lock, but no data.

Shouldn't you be using /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 ?

If you have mplayer installed, try

$ mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0

whilst szap is running and has a channel lock

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Re: [linux-dvb] Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus

[Timothy Parez]

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Yes, I should,
just a typo in the message, that's actually what I'm doing.

dd if=/dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 of=test.mpg

the file remains empty

and mplayer returns an error


Timothy.


On 01 Apr 2008, at 23:56, Nick Morrott wrote:

> On 30/03/2008, Timothy Parez <timothyparez@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I got it working once.
>> Then I had scanning problems,
>> now I don't have scanning problems
>>
>> but szap -r "BBC THREE"     for example works,
>> but doesn't put any data in /dev/dvb/adapter0
>>
>> So I get a lock, but no data.
>
> Shouldn't you be using /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 ?
>
> If you have mplayer installed, try
>
> $ mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
>
> whilst szap is running and has a channel lock
>
> --  
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>
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> http://mythtv.org/wiki/
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>
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> Benjamin Franklin
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Re: [linux-dvb] Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus

[Nick Morrott]

On 01/04/2008, Florin Andrei <florin@andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> Nick Morrott wrote:
>  >
>  > Linux smithers.home 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 23:10:59 EDT
>  > 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>  >
>  > No problems using my card pointed at Astra 28.2E.
>
>
> I wonder if the lesson to take home is to either use a relatively old
>  kernel, such as 2.6.18, or a kernel as new as possible. But avoid
>  in-between versions such as, let's say, 2.6.20

Possibly. On the DVB wiki
(http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-S-Plus) there
are reports of problems on 2.6.22.14, which is a _later_ than the one
on my test machine. I guess the only real answer is try it on the
distro you want, and see how it goes. It definitely does work though,
and has been supported since 2006.


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