Hauppauge HVR950Q TV tuner

[Bill Moseley]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:55:06PM +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> At the menu DVB -> Configure DVB... you can select your DVB region. That 
> should make scanning much faster because unused channels aren't checked. 
> OTOH, maybe it works differently for ATSC.

I don't have a DVB region option.

    http://hank.org/dvb-settings.png

The "Source:" is blank, although I'm not sure what that's for.

My channel select screen looks like this:

    http://hank.org/channel-select.png

Clicking "Start Scan" doesn't seem to do anything.  The progress bar
(if that is what it is) that shows 0% in the above image does not
change.  strace on Kaffeine just looks like it's in a select loop.

But I was able to use w_scan to create my channels.dvb file for my
area:

    w_scan -f a -c US -k > channels.dvb

I can now play some stations.  My guess is my signal strength is not
very good.  I can play stations for a few minutes but then they
eventually stop -- or the audio/video gets way out of sync.


A similar situation with mplayer.   Playback with mplayer seems to
work for a few minutes but eventually the audio goes out of sync and
then mplayer starts to report errors or complains that my core 2 duo
thinkpad laptop is too slow.


> > Seems like maybe I need a newer version of Kaffeine.  In 9.04 is
> > 0.8.6, but this seems to indicate that 0.8.7+ is required:
> 
> Strange - I have 0.8.7 from the usual 9.04 repository.

Perhaps just a problem with ATSC.

Wish I could figure out the build problem so I could try the more
current version.

Thanks for the help, Nils.  At least I have my channels listed and can
watch them -- if only for a few minutes.  Good for my short attention
span.


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