Ok, I tried using scan

scanning util/dvb-c/fi-Helsinki (created a file with local settings)
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
main:1882: FATAL: failed to open '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0': 19 No such device

dmesg shows the modules load correctly:
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
saa7146: register extension 'dvb'
saa746_core: found saa7146 @ mem c8cef000 (revision 1, irq 11) (0x13c2,0x0002).
DVB: registering new adapter (Technotrend/Hauppage PCI rev2.1).
Technotrend/Hauppage PCI rev2.1 adapter 0 has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:03:9d:6d
DVB: AV7111(0) - firm f0240009, rtsl b0250018, vid 71010068, app 8000261b
DVB: AV7111(0) - firmware supports CI link layer interface
av7110(0): adac type set to 0
saa7135_fops: saa7146 (0) registered device video0 lv4121
av7110: found av7110-0

Any ideas?

Solved!

DVB-C cards require separate frontend module - for Technotrend it is ves1820. Thanks for all the help - I'll be asking for more soon

Anyway, this is something that could be mentioned in the guide as well? The other frontend modules are at76c651 and dst (the former loaded as well in my system, but was no good).

Sweet!

Should I use the latest one or is there no use for that, I'm interested in getting the dvb running.

/Henrik

Well, I can now verify that these mods work for me. I was able to watch live DVB-T TV this morning, record the program, and then watch the recording as it was happening. All from one upgraded library (libmythtv), a few extra drivers loaded, and some fiddling around in mythtv-setup.

Note that, for my card, the linuxtv-dvb-1.1.0 and 1.1.1 drivers have occasionally caused IRQ lockups, and that mythtv 0.14 doesn't cope very well with poor signals - the frontend often hangs, and the backend has sometimes seg faulted.

Summary: it is possible for KnoppMyth to support DVB out of the box! All we need to do is bribe cesman to add this stuff into R4V4, or R5

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Please, can you make an instruction even I can follow?
/Henrik

So if I ever come to Australia, you're buying?

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

hello!

i am also trying to install dvb support (hauppauge nexus) to mythtv.
after installing the dvb-driver (i gtoo got the error with missing frontend), i could scan. but now, my mythtbackend won't start.

i have inserted a new capture card: dvb in mythtv-setup but after recompiling mythtv as described above, there still is the hint: recompile with dvb support" in mythtv-setup.

maybe someone could help me with making mythtv dvb ready ?

Apparently the recompile did not succeed...stupid suggestions below (something I might have tried myself...):


Remembered to uncomment INCLUDEPATH as well?



Was there error messages regarding rights with
qmake mythtv.pro (try sudo qumake...) or
make (try sudo make)?

I was able to do it as instructed, so it has to work. I think there was one or two places I had to use sudo even it was not in the instructions.[/quote]

I thought I had

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Sure. I will even supply a spare room, and give you a good bottle of Aussie wine for the trip home!

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| "Things you own end up owning you" - Tyler, Fight Club

Check the timestamps on /usr/lib/libmyth* to make sure that libmythtv was installed?

If not, do the sudo make install in mythtv-0.14/liba/libmythtv

If so, maybe reboot to be sure? (the old library may have been cached somehow?)

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I guess if you know Linux this is no match.
I have used the .iso file and burnt the cd and made an auto install.
After that I'm kind of lost. I tried to change kernel, but then the machine don't start at all, I tried the option 1 and then I got stuck.
I have a "technotrend dvb-t budget" card.

I have a question:
Why isn't the newer kernal in the .iso file, If there is more support for capture cards in the later kernels? ( as you understand I'm a newbee) ?

Can someone help me with a script or something for installing this, I'm realy frustrated.

Pleease!
/Henrik

I could do it with the guide using option 1, so you should be fine. I never touched Linux before last Saturday. Ok, took three days, and just starting reinstall

What was the exact error using option 1?

Sounds like a plan!

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When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

make install creates the following output

rm -f "../../../../../../../local/lib/libmythtv-0.14.so.0.14.0"
cp -f "libmythtv-0.14.so.0.14.0" "../../../../../../../local/lib/libmythtv-0.14.so.0.14.0"
strip "../../../../../../../local/lib/libmythtv-0.14.so.0.14.0"
ln -sf "libmythtv-0.14.so.0.14.0" "../../../../../../../local/lib/libmythtv-0.14.so"
ln -sf "libmythtv-0.14.so.0.14.0" "../../../../../../../local/lib/libmythtv-0.14.so.0"
ln -sf "libmythtv-0.14.so.0.14.0" "../../../../../../../local/lib/libmythtv-0.14.so.0.14"


i thought they should be copied to /usr/lib ?! in /usr/lib there are old libs and in /usr/local/lib there are my new one