[Bug 369349] Re: mplayer tv tuner DVB CONFIGURATION IS EMPTY in Jaunty

Ho Tuan tuan at post.harvard.edu
Sat Jul 18 22:40:08 UTC 2009


I wasn't able to get it to work, but I did discover a useful and
effective workaround using azap (or tzap/szap/czap if you don't tune to
ATSC channels).

Use {a,z,c,s}zap to tune to the desired channel listed in channels.conf.
In my case, I was tuning to WDHD-HD (NBC in Boston, MA). The "-r" option
is important, since it activates the dvr0 device on your tuner card.

# azap -r -c $path_to_your/channels.conf "WHDH-HD"

Wait for the tuner to lock on to the channel. You should see something
like:

status 1f | signal 00fa | snr 00fa | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 |
FE_HAS_LOCK

Once locked, you can direct mplayer to access the tuned dvr0 device you
just activated.

# mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0

Assuming nothing went wrong, it should start playing the stream as
desired. While this doesn't fix the original problem, it is probably
better to use {a,z,c,s}zap anyway, since they are much more fully
featured as DVB-tuning programs.

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mplayer tv tuner DVB CONFIGURATION IS EMPTY in Jaunty
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