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Lifeview Flytv DVB-T hybrid - Cardbus

HI

G D wrote: 
Hi again,


That's right. Good to hear that it works. This method of routing the sound
is not perfect. We have to wait until some application supports digital sound
routing.



Ok ... I noticed that after a while (i.e. after caching something like
200 MB of sound) sox tends to loose syncronism with the video output,
so after an hour or so you've to kill and restart sox ...

The problem is that capture card and sound card are not synchronised. So
depending of the drift, buffer overflows or underflows will occur. We need
a sample rate converter here.


Hm, the setup for sox must be the same. The support for radio with this chipset
is quite new, do you use a snapshot from linuxtv.org?



No! ... that's maybe why ... I used the one shipped with ubuntu
dapper, but after your helpful mail I downloaded with cvs ... ehm ...
mercurial the new tree. Compiling and reinstalling right now ... Wait
for news!

Most probably. By the way: tuner status reporting is not implemented yet.
This means channels search does not work yet. But you can tune manually.



I guess you know the thing with the channels.conf file?
In order to verify that everything goes right, can you send me a kernel log
(dmesg) with the driver loading and an attempt to tune DVB-T?
I still suspect that you might have the new design which reguires some changes
in the driver.



Ehm ... ok ... right now I'am focussed on watching analog TV ;-) ...
ehm ... no ... the next step is for sure the radio ... I cannot live
without radio ... and now I've and small old FM near me !!!
After radio I'll focus on DVB ... one step at a time ;-)
I tested slightly DVB-T with kaffeine, and for what I've understood
it's a mere firmware problem ... the log complains in this way

[4298600.564000] tda1004x: found firmware revision ff -- invalid
[4298600.579000] tda1004x: booting from eeprom

This rings a bell, see below.

and so on, a couple of times ... so principally I've still to
understand this firmware stuff ... where to get it and where to put it
... mayber with the cvs .. .ehm ... mercurial v4l branch ...


Lastly, I'm going to try  with the card=87 option, with the new v4l ...


Does your module have a fan? 


Sorry?! You mean a real "fan" on the cardbus card?"  Meinst du einen
"Kühlerlüfter"?!?  ... dunno ... I' dont think ... but let me check
...

Jep, as Peter already mentioned below: A thing that creates noise and
moves some air for cooling purposes ;-)
I have the ADS-Tech module (card 87). I am almost sure that it is a LifeView
design and it doesn't have a fan. The new silicon tuner consumes less power
and there is only one, so this is plausible.
The point is: This module uses a different way to control the configuration.
If your card is based on the same design, it explains why the DVB-T channel
decoder doesn't boot.
So i would recommend: get a recent snapshot and try dvb with the card type
set to 87. If at least the channel decoder boots, we know where we are.
I am im cotact with another guy who seems to have the same card. He reports
that everything supported by card 87 works.

Best regards
   Hartmut

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