How to help with RTL2832U based TV?

How to help with RTL2832U based TV?

[Peter Rasmussen]

I looked around in the archives of:

	http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure
	http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/

as mentioned in the welcome email of this list, but it isn't apparent to me what the status in Linux of using a device based on this chip is?


When inserting the USB dongle I get the following:

Dec  3 20:56:22 kultorvet kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device 
using ehci_hcd and address 5
Dec  3 20:56:22 kultorvet kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device found, 
idVendor=1d19, idProduct=1102
Dec  3 20:56:22 kultorvet kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device strings: 
Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Dec  3 20:56:22 kultorvet kernel: usb 1-1: Product: Rtl2832UDVB
Dec  3 20:56:22 kultorvet kernel: usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Realtek
Dec  3 20:56:22 kultorvet kernel: usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 1
Dec  3 20:56:22 kultorvet kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 
1 choice

In Windows Vista it runs fine, showing TV using both MPEG2 and MPEG4 
encoded signals, but I would much rather run it with Linux.

I am also developing software for a living, but not this close to 
hardware, however I would like to help out the way I can.

Thanks,
Peter

Re: How to help with RTL2832U based TV?

[Antti Palosaari]

On 12/03/2009 10:09 PM, Peter Rasmussen wrote:
> as mentioned in the welcome email of this list, but it isn't apparent to
> me what the status in Linux of using a device based on this chip is?

I have got today device having this chip (thanks to verkkokauppa.com for 
sponsoring) and I am going to implement the driver. I am in hope I can 
share some code from the old RTL2831U chip driver. I haven't looked 
driver code yet nor taken any sniffs. I will do that during next week.

Anyhow, there is Realtek released driver spreading over the net for that 
chip, you can use it.

Antti
-- 
http://palosaari.fi/

Re: How to help with RTL2832U based TV?

[Keld Jørn Simonsen]

Antti Palosaari wrote Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:48:01 -0800

> On 12/03/2009 10:09 PM, Peter Rasmussen wrote:
> 
>     as mentioned in the welcome email of this list, but it isn't
> apparent to
>     me what the status in Linux of using a device based on this chip is?
> 
> I have got today device having this chip (thanks to verkkokauppa.com for
> sponsoring) and I am going to implement the driver. I am in hope I can
> share some code from the old RTL2831U chip driver. I haven't looked
> driver code yet nor taken any sniffs. I will do that during next week.

OK, what is the status of this now?
It seems from the status page that it is not finished.

> Anyhow, there is Realtek released driver spreading over the net for that
> chip, you can use it.

I tried to find this but without luck.
Do you know where it can be found?

Anyway, I got the dongle to work via the following receipt:
http://www.linuxin.dk/node/15583 (in Danish, but I think Google can
translate it).

I would appreciate that this be in the kernel tree proper.

Best regards
Keld

Re: How to help with RTL2832U based TV?

[Maxim Levitsky]

On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 11:55 +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> Antti Palosaari wrote Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:48:01 -0800
> 
> > On 12/03/2009 10:09 PM, Peter Rasmussen wrote:
> > 
> >     as mentioned in the welcome email of this list, but it isn't
> > apparent to
> >     me what the status in Linux of using a device based on this chip is?
> > 
> > I have got today device having this chip (thanks to verkkokauppa.com for
> > sponsoring) and I am going to implement the driver. I am in hope I can
> > share some code from the old RTL2831U chip driver. I haven't looked
> > driver code yet nor taken any sniffs. I will do that during next week.
> 
> OK, what is the status of this now?
> It seems from the status page that it is not finished.
> 
> > Anyhow, there is Realtek released driver spreading over the net for that
> > chip, you can use it.
> 
> I tried to find this but without luck.
> Do you know where it can be found?
> 
> Anyway, I got the dongle to work via the following receipt:
> http://www.linuxin.dk/node/15583 (in Danish, but I think Google can
> translate it).
> 
> I would appreciate that this be in the kernel tree proper

I am doing a driver rewrite.
Don't know when I finish it though.
Could you tell me what tuner you have, and does your card also support
DVB-C?
(some Realtek cards also support Chinese DTMB, but even if yours does,
you probably won't be able to test it (unless you live there).

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky

Re: How to help with RTL2832U based TV?

[Keld Jørn Simonsen]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 03:05:04AM +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 11:55 +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> > Antti Palosaari wrote Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:48:01 -0800
> > 
> > > On 12/03/2009 10:09 PM, Peter Rasmussen wrote:
> > > 
> > >     as mentioned in the welcome email of this list, but it isn't
> > > apparent to
> > >     me what the status in Linux of using a device based on this chip is?
> > > 
> > > I have got today device having this chip (thanks to verkkokauppa.com for
> > > sponsoring) and I am going to implement the driver. I am in hope I can
> > > share some code from the old RTL2831U chip driver. I haven't looked
> > > driver code yet nor taken any sniffs. I will do that during next week.
> > 
> > OK, what is the status of this now?
> > It seems from the status page that it is not finished.
> > 
> > > Anyhow, there is Realtek released driver spreading over the net for that
> > > chip, you can use it.
> > 
> > I tried to find this but without luck.
> > Do you know where it can be found?
> > 
> > Anyway, I got the dongle to work via the following receipt:
> > http://www.linuxin.dk/node/15583 (in Danish, but I think Google can
> > translate it).
> > 
> > I would appreciate that this be in the kernel tree proper
> 
> I am doing a driver rewrite.
> Don't know when I finish it though.

Sounds good!

Why is the driver mentioned in http://www.linuxin.dk/node/15583 no good?

> Could you tell me what tuner you have, and does your card also support
> DVB-C?

It is called Zolid, and has usb id 1d19:1102

I tried it in a DVB-C environment, and it worked fine.

> (some Realtek cards also support Chinese DTMB, but even if yours does,
> you probably won't be able to test it (unless you live there).

I live in Denmark. Occasionally I travel abroad, and I actually should
have been in China 2 months ago. Next stop: USA.

best regards
keld