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Question

'lo.
I own an terratec cinergyT2 usb dvb-t device, and have it connected to my pc. Allthough the antenna is too poor to recieve anything at all, I want to try to get the thing set up properly.
I can add following parts of installation, if they contain no errors:
done - udev ruleset to have nodes in /dev/dvb/adapter0/... style
done - udev permission set
testing - channels.conf for vcd or xine, mplayer, at least for ffm / germany
As the module is loaded without an error, I thought mplayer dvb://zdf could do the job now. Well, it isn't. Some parts are still missing. At this stage, I am not sure if it is a mplayer- or xine-config problem, or still an hardware / driver / kernel issue.
If someone else is working on similar stuff, we might try work it out, together.

Answer 1

I reset permissions to root:video 770 and am part of video.
mplayer -v dvb://"Das Erste"
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.4.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 /Athlon MP/XP Palomino (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
CommandLine: '-v' 'dvb://Das Erste'
init_freetype
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/ingo/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /home/ingo/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Keine Berechtigung
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Using nanosleep() timing
get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/ingo/.mplayer/input.conf'
Can't open input config file /home/ingo/.mplayer/input.conf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
get_path('Das Erste.conf') -> '/home/ingo/.mplayer/Das Erste.conf'
Playing dvb://Das Erste.
TUNER TYPE SEEMS TO BE DVB-T
get_path('channels.conf.ter') -> '/home/ingo/.mplayer/channels.conf.ter'
get_path('channels.conf') -> '/home/ingo/.mplayer/channels.conf'
CONFIG_READ FILE: /home/ingo/.mplayer/channels.conf, type: 2
TER, NUM: 0, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: Das Erste, FREQ: 198500000 PIDS: 101 102 0
TER, NUM: 1, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: arte, FREQ: 198500000 PIDS: 201 202 0
TER, NUM: 2, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: PHOENIX, FREQ: 198500000 PIDS: 301 302 0
TER, NUM: 3, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: ARD-MHP-Data, FREQ: 198500000 PIDS: 0 0 0
TER, NUM: 4, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: Doku/KiKa, FREQ: 482000000 PIDS: 593 594 0
TER, NUM: 5, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: Info/3sat, FREQ: 482000000 PIDS: 561 562 0
TER, NUM: 6, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: ZDF, FREQ: 482000000 PIDS: 545 546 0
TER, NUM: 7, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: RTL Television, FREQ: 578000000 PIDS: 337 338 0
TER, NUM: 8, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: RTL2, FREQ: 578000000 PIDS: 353 354 0
TER, NUM: 9, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: Super RTL, FREQ: 578000000 PIDS: 369 370 0
TER, NUM: 10, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: VOX, FREQ: 578000000 PIDS: 545 546 0
TER, NUM: 11, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: N24, FREQ: 738000000 PIDS: 225 226 0
TER, NUM: 12, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: KABEL1, FREQ: 738000000 PIDS: 161 162 0
TER, NUM: 13, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: ProSieben, FREQ: 738000000 PIDS: 305 306 0
TER, NUM: 14, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: SAT.1, FREQ: 738000000 PIDS: 385 386 0
TER, NUM: 15, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: EinsFestival, FREQ: 762000000 PIDS: 701 702 0
TER, NUM: 16, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: ARD-MHP-Data, FREQ: 762000000 PIDS: 0 0 0
TER, NUM: 17, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: Bayerisches FS, FREQ: 762000000 PIDS: 501 502 0
TER, NUM: 18, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: hr-fernsehen, FREQ: 762000000 PIDS: 401 402 0
TER, NUM: 19, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: SÃœDWEST RP, FREQ: 762000000 PIDS: 601 602 0
TER, NUM: 20, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: rheinmaintv, FREQ: 818000000 PIDS: 2817 2818 0
TER, NUM: 21, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: TERRA NOVA, FREQ: 818000000 PIDS: 609 610 0
TER, NUM: 22, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: Eurosport, FREQ: 818000000 PIDS: 577 578 0
TER, NUM: 23, NUM_FIELDS: 12, NAME: tvnah, FREQ: 818000000 PIDS: 2833 2834 0
DVB_CONFIG, can't open device /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0, skipping
DVB_CONFIG, can't open device /dev/dvb/adapter2/frontend0, skipping
DVB_CONFIG, can't open device /dev/dvb/adapter3/frontend0, skipping
OPEN_DVB: prog=Das Erste, card=1, type=2, vid=0, aid=0
code taken from dvbstream for mplayer v0.4pre1 - (C) Dave Chapman 2001
Released under the GPL.
Latest version available from http://www.linuxstb.org/
PROG: Das Erste, CARD: 1, VID: 0, AID: 0, TYPE: , FILE: (null)
PROGRAM NUMBER 0: name=Das Erste, freq=198500000
DVB_OPEN_DEVICES(3)
OPEN(0), file /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0: FD=4, CNT=0
OPEN(1), file /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0: FD=5, CNT=1
OPEN(2), file /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0: FD=6, CNT=2
DVB_SET_CHANNEL: new channel name=Das Erste, card: 0, channel 0
DIFFERENT TUNING THAN THE PREVIOUS: -> 0|198500000|2|1|3|1|1|3
dvb_tune Freq: 198500000
TUNE_IT, fd_frontend 3, fd_sec 0
freq 198500000, srate 3079839564, pol Using DVB card "TerraTec/qanu USB2.0 Highspeed DVB-T Receiver"
tuning DVB-T (in United Kingdom) to 198500000 Hz, bandwidth: 1
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_GET_EVENTdvb_tune, TUNING FAILED
ERROR, COULDN'T SET CHANNEL 0: DVBIN_CLOSE, close(2), fd=6, COUNT=2
DVBIN_CLOSE, close(1), fd=5, COUNT=1
DVBIN_CLOSE, close(0), fd=4, COUNT=0
Failed to open dvb://Das Erste
vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited..
Exiting... (End of file)
It is the same, isn't it. Due to "UNER TYPE SEEMS TO BE DVB-T
get_path('channels.conf.ter') -> '/home/ingo/.mplayer/channels.conf.ter'" I moved channels.conf to channels.conf.ter. I guess I should prrof first, if the channel conf files are correct. Might be they are wrong.