Tv Tuner Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-930C-HD kernel support [Solved]

[msdobrescu]

i think it is called dvb-fe-tool, but I can't find it in the package.
It seems to be here: http://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git/bl ... -fe-tool.c
So it should be here, relative to the archive root: /utils/dvb/dvb-fe-tool.c

[msdobrescu]

If I use w_scan this way:

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w_scan -fc -e 12 -k >> ~/.kde4/share/apps/kaffeine/scanfile.dvb

it reports finding many channels (121), but it doesn't save any in the scanfile.dvb.

If I use it this way:

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w_scan -fc -X -c RO -e 12 -k >> ~/.kde4/share/apps/kaffeine/scanfile.dvb

it doesn't find any channels, because it starts from a much highier frequency than my provider.

What should I do?

[msdobrescu]

I have switched to vlc and it works fine.
However, the playlist generated by w_scan is not correct.
It should look like:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/" xmlns:vlc="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/ns/0/">
      <title>DVB Playlist</title>
      <trackList>
         <track>
            <title>0001. TVCHANNELNAME</title>
            <location>dvb-c://frequency=338000000:inversion=2:srate=6900000:fec=9:modulation=64QAM</location>
            <extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0">
               <vlc:id>00</vlc:id>
               <vlc:option>program=180</vlc:option>
            </extension>
         </track>
...


What else could I use as frontend, except MythTV?

[msdobrescu]

I use Tvheadend as the back-end and XBMC as the front-end on my Media Centre. See the thread Request for advice on making a Media Centre [Solved] for details of how to install and configure Tvheadend and XMBC to display DVB-T television. N.B. There is a later version of Tvheadend now, as that thread is from 2009/2010. Also, as SL these days does not come configured out-of-the-box for Portage, see also NOTE 1 in my post Re: Can I install .rpm or .deb drivers on Sabayon? for how to set up SL first.

Dear Fitzcarraldo, you are a member of the Sabayon team.
Why not Tvheadend in the dstro?

[Fitzcarraldo]

I'm not a member of the Sabayon team, msdobrescu, I'm just a forums moderator. I have nothing to do with the development of SL. If you would like Tvheadend to be added to the Entropy repository, you could request it by clicking on the link 'Bugs' at the top of this page and filing a request. There is a live ebuild tvheadend-9999.ebuild in Gentoo Bugzilla Bug Report No. 288022, so the SL package maintainers could build it from that.

[msdobrescu]

Sorry, for what it concerns me, you are part of them as long as this forum is Sabayon's official site. Your knowledge and presentation in the forum's intro made me think you are close to the team (well, maybe not fisically, but with your heart and mind). I don't want to offense anybody, but there's more than developers around some software product. As a developer myself, I consider at least as colleague, and very important part of the team, the customer suppot people that take care of all the users asking and requesting things, leting me do my job in peace.

I wanted to ask for Tvheadend, I wonder why didn't you ask already, as long as you recommend it - I am just curious.
I didn't know we could ask for some package not present in the gentoo official repo, as stable and tested, or in Sabayon's packages.sabayon.org list.

Before that, looking at some configs and stuff related to tvheadend, I'm a bit scared of setting it up.

[Fitzcarraldo]

No, I'm not at all close to the Sabayon development team and have virtually no contact with any of them. All those posts were done on my own initiative. I simply help to moderate the SL forums and occasionally block the odd spammer in the Wiki, that's all. I'm not the only moderator, either. I am quite an active poster in the SL forums, though, as I like to try and help but also because I myself learn by trying to solve other people's problems.

I didn't request for Tvheadend to be added to Entropy because I don't have Entropy installed on my main machine and the only time I use Entropy these days is transiently in a VirtualBox LiveCD environment when I'm trying to help someone in these forums. Even on my media centre, which does have Entropy installed (although I haven't bothered upgrading it for a year or more), I found it easy and quick to install Tvheadend using Portage via a local overlay.

[msdobrescu]

OK, so what's better, to use emerge, or build Tvheadend myself?

[Fitzcarraldo]

The package manager is always the best route, so use Portage. It's not difficult and you'll learn something. Because SL is not sync'ed to the Portage repositories, and is not set up out of the box to use a Portage local overlay, you'll need to set it up first. See NOTE 1 in the post Re: Can I install .rpm or .deb drivers on Sabayon? for how to set it up. Then basically follow the instructions for installing Tvheadend in that old Media Centre thread I gave you the link for a few posts back, except use the latest ebuild from the Gentoo Bugzilla bug report.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Actually, to make life easier for you, here's how to install Tvheadend after setting up SL as explained in NOTE 1 in the aforementioned post, but please don't just parrot the commands below, study them and research what each command does, so that you learn.

I haven't tried installing Tvheadend from the live ebuild (version '9999' means 'live', i.e. latest source code straight from the development repository, not from the release repository) in the Gentoo Bugzilla, so see how you get on.

Copy the relevant files from Gentoo Bugzilla Report No. 288022 to your Desktop. Then execute the following commands as root user in a Konsole/Terminal window to install Tvheadend and configure SL to run it in the background on boot:

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mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/media-tv/tvheadend/files/
cp /home/msdobrescu/Desktop/tvheadend.initd /usr/local/portage/media-tv/tvheadend/files/
cp /home/msdobrescu/Desktop/tvheadend.confd /usr/local/portage/media-tv/tvheadend/files/
cp /home/msdobrescu/Desktop/tvheadend-9999.ebuild /usr/local/portage/media-tv/tvheadend/
cd /usr/local/portage/media-tv/tvheadend/
ebuild tvheadend-9999.ebuild manifest
echo "=media-tv/tvheadend-9999 **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge -1v tvheadend
rc-update add tvheadend default
/etc/init.d/tvheadend start

Then enter the URL http://127.0.0.1:9981 in the Firefox address bar, and the Tvheadend GUI will be displayed. The default username and password are set as "*" on the Tvheadend GUI configuration page, i.e. anyone can access the TV backend. You can leave those as they are for the time being.

Then launch XBMC and add a Video source htsp://127.0.0.1:9982/ (I named it "TV" but it can be named whatever you want). There is a thread about using Tvheadend in the XBMC forums which is worth browsing through: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=51945.

To tell Entropy what you did via Portage:

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equo rescue spmsync

EDIT: Added command to add entry to package.keywords