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maxell
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Location: Catania, Italy
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 Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:23 pm Post subject: TERRATEC Cinergy 1400 DVB-T |
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Hello,
I wish to know whether you have experienced installation and setup of the cinergy 1400 DVB-T card.
Could you please report info about
-setup troubles
-lirc
-kernel you are working
-software you use
-other useful info
Thank you
Maxell |
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mikitex
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Location: Pordenone, Italy
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:01 am Post subject: |
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I've just finished to configure my cinergy 1400 and now I can watch TV and record in MPEG format  . Lirc is not working: maybe I've make some mistake configuring it.
My configuration is:
- motherboard: ASUS A7N8X, 1G ram
- cpu:Athlon XP 3000+
- video board: ATI Radeon 9000 All-In-Wonder
- kernel: gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1. DVB configuration is this:
| Code: | Device Drivers ---> I2C support
<M> I2C support
<M> I2C device interface
Device Drivers ---> I2C support ---> I2C Algorithms
<M> I2C PCF 8584 interfaces
<> I2C PCA 9564 interfaces
Device Drivers ---> Multimedia devices ---> Video For Linux
<M> Conexant 2388x (bt878 successor) support
<M> DVB Support for cx2388x based TV cards
<*> Build all supported frontends for cx2388x based TV cards
Device Drivers ---> Multimedia devices ---> Digital Video Broadcasting Devices
[*] DVB For Linux
<M> DVB Core Support
<> Conexant CX22700 based (DVB_CX22700)
<> Conexant cx22702 demodulator (OFDM)
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NOTE: <> means that is included by default, I can't exclude or modularize it.
player: kaffeine-0.7.1
Users must be on group video to use DVB (and v4l) devices.
The dvb frontend module cx88-dvb is not automatically loaded, therefore I've added it to autoloaded modules:
| Code: | echo "cx88-dvb" >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
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After module cx88-dvb is loaded Kaffeine works fine, but there are problems (it hangs) when the channel is crypted and/or there is some problem receiving it. Changing channel is much faster than on XP; also, while on XP channels sometimes glitches (recording is impossible, there are too often errors), with kaffeine recordings are always perfect.
For the configuration of dvb/kaffeine I've used some info from http://www.malex.org/blog/archives/2006/02/digitale-terrestre-su-linux (in italian); I've made a mux configuration file for my zone and saved into
| Code: | ~/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine/dvb-t/it-Arba
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It looks like this (for meaning of fields take a look into other the configuration files in the same directory):
| Code: | # MUX DFree
T 594000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
# MUX Mediaset-2
T 818000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
# MUX-A Rai
T 602000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
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To find frequencies for italian broadcasting I've used info at http://www.dgtvi.it/dgtvi/copertura.aspx.
I've also installed xdtv to try to record analog TV (I have also a LifeView FlyTV Platinum FM  ), but without success (for now...  ). It claims to work with DVB also, ma it seems to need an external tuning application to work.
Finally, I've also installed tvtime for watching analog tv (kaffeine don't use analog TV). It's a great program and its output quality is grater than xdtv (xdtv doesn't deinterlace output) and maybe I can use to watch digital tv using an external tuner application (dvbtune?) and using the command line option -d.
I'm planning more tests/experiments with all these tv players on weekend. I'm also planning to test vdr, which seems to have a plugin to watch analog tv.
I hope that these information will be useful; I will integrate it as soon as I've more info to share.
Bye. |
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maxell
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| Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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Indeed I bought a Terratec Cinergy T2 card and I got it up and running.
However Grazie 1000 for sharing, hope it will be useful to the community
ciao |
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cyberpatrol
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Location: Germany
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This thread is pretty old but I think I should add that the combined S-Video/Composite input of the Terratec Cinergy 1400 DVB-T can be used with a small kernel patch.
See bug 162239. |
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cyberpatrol
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Location: Germany
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| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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And to get lirc working this has to be added to /etc/make.conf before emerging lirc:
| Code: | | LIRC_DEVICES="devinput" |
This is the /etc/conf.d/lircd:
| Code: | # Options to pass to the lircd process
LIRCD_OPTS="-H dev/input -d /dev/input/eventX" (where X is the highest available number) |
And this is an example for the /etc/conf.d/irexec:
| Code: | # Options to pass to the irexec process
IREXEC_OPTS="/etc/lircrc"
# User to execute irexec as.
# Warning: Running irexec as root can open security holes
IREXEC_USER="<username_for_the_user_who_wants_to_use_irexec>"
# Use this to disable the warning printed when starting irexec as root
# IREXEC_DISABLE_ROOT_WARNING=yes |
Here's an appropriate /etc/lircd.conf:
| Code: | # Please make this file available to others
# by sending it to <lirc@bartelmus.de>
#
# this config file was automatically generated
# using lirc-0.8.0(devinput) on Wed Apr 12 20:57:59 2006
#
# contributed by Heiko Baums
#
# brand: Terratec
# model no. of remote control: Cinergy 1400 DVB-T
# devices being controlled by this remote:
#
begin remote
name Terratec_Cinergy_1400_DVB-T
bits 16
eps 30
aeps 100
one 0 0
zero 0 0
pre_data_bits 16
pre_data 0x8001
gap 135787
toggle_bit 0
begin codes
power 0x0074
1 0x0002
2 0x0003
3 0x0004
4 0x0005
5 0x0006
6 0x0007
7 0x0008
8 0x0009
9 0x000A
0 0x000B
av 0x0189
refresh 0x00AD
osd 0x0161
epg 0x016D
up 0x0067
left 0x0069
right 0x006A
down 0x006C
ok 0x0160
txt 0x0184
info 0x0166
red 0x018E
green 0x018F
yellow 0x0190
blue 0x0191
volumeup 0x0073
volumedown 0x0072
mute 0x0071
channelup 0x0192
channeldown 0x0193
pause 0x0077
play 0x00CF
record 0x00A7
previous 0x019C
stop 0x0080
next 0x0197
end codes
end remote |
And here's a part of my /etc/lircrc to get an idea how to get the remote control working with several programs:
(It's derived from other examples I've found here in the forums and in the web.)
| Code: | ################# any(global) ################
begin
flags = startup_mode
mode = system
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = av
mode = select
end
################# select ################
begin select
begin
prog = irexec
button = 0
mode = system
flags = quit
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = 1
mode = audacious
flags = quit
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = 2
mode = kscd
flags = quit
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = 3
mode = amarok
flags = quit
end
end select
################# audacious ################
begin audacious
begin
prog = irexec
button = power
config = audtool shutdown
mode = system
flags = mode
flags = quit
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = play
config = audtool playback-play
end
...
begin
prog = irexec
button = 0
button = 1
button = ok
config = audtool playlist-jump 1
flags = quit
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = 0
button = 2
button = ok
config = audtool playlist-jump 2
flags = quit
end
...
end
################# kscd ################
begin kscd
begin
prog = irexec
button = power
config = dcop --all-sessions --all-users kscd CDPlayer quit
mode = system
flags = mode
flags = quit
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = play
config = dcop --all-sessions --all-users kscd CDPlayer play
end
...
begin
prog = irexec
button = 0
button = 1
button = ok
config = dcop --all-sessions --all-users kscd CDPlayer setTrack 1
flags = quit
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = 0
button = 2
button = ok
config = dcop --all-sessions --all-users kscd CDPlayer setTrack 2
flags = quit
end
...
end
################# amarok ################
begin amarok
begin
prog = irexec
button = power
config = dcop --all-sessions --all-users amarok MainApplication-Interface quit
mode = system
flags = mode
flags = quit
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = play
config = dcop --all-sessions --all-users amarok player play
end
...
begin
prog = irexec
button = 0
button = 1
button = ok
config = dcop --all-sessions --all-users amarok playlist playByIndex 0
flags = quit
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = 0
button = 2
button = ok
config = dcop --all-sessions --all-users amarok playlist playByIndex 1
flags = quit
end
...
end
################# system ################
begin system
begin
prog = irexec
button = power
config = if ps -A | grep ksmserver ; then dcop --all-sessions --all-users ksmserver ksmserver logout 0 2 0 ; else sudo halt ; fi
flags = quit
end
end system |
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cyberpatrol
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| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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Forgot to mention the kernel configuration which is necessary for lirc:
| Code: | [*] Networking support
Networking options --->
<*> IrDA (infrared) subsystem support --->
<*> IrCOMM protocol |
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