From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:61926 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754377Ab1D3KAg (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:00:36 -0400 Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so4955249wwa.1 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 03:00:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DBBDDBF.4020704@googlemail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:00:31 +0100 From: Robert Longbottom MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-media@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: OK szap is looking better, and I feel so close... References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: Sender: On 30/04/2011 10:37, Morgan Read wrote: > OK, think I might be getting somewhere... > > [user@vortexbox ~]$ szap -r TV2 > reading channels from file '/home/user/.szap/channels.conf' > zapping to 3 'TV2': > sat 0, frequency = 12483 MHz H, symbolrate 22500000, vpid = 0x0204, > apid = 0x028e > using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' > status 01 | signal fa00 | snr f772 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe | > status 01 | signal 0f00 | snr a344 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe | > status 01 | signal 0f00 | snr a423 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe | > ... ... ... > ^C I'd expect to see (from memory) FE_HAS_LOCK on the end of those lines, so something more like this: status 01 | signal fa00 | snr f772 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe | FE_HAS_LOCK Looks like it hasn't locked on to the channel for some reason. I think this is probably your problem, though I don't know what you should do to fix it... > [user@vortexbox ~]$ > > And, while szap -r TV2 is running, on another console I should be able > to run mplayer? So: > [user@vortexbox ~]$ mplayer -vo x11 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > MPlayer SVN-r33254-snapshot-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team > 162 audio& 360 video codecs > Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory > Can't init input joystick > mplayer: could not connect to socket > mplayer: No such file or directory > Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. > > Playing /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0. > > > MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: demux_open > > > MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: demux_open > [user@vortexbox ~]$ > > But, nothing happens at Playing /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0. ... Where > should I see what's playing? I usually do: $ cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > recording.mpg and then in another terminal $ mplayer recording.mpg Though it doesn't look like thats your problem, but at least you can see if any data is being retrieved if the file grows in size. Robert.