Changing TV channels in kaffeine worked fine in 11.1 with my dvb-t card Hauppauge HVR-4000
After loading 11.2 from scratch I cannot easily change TV channels.
After formatting and downloading 11.2, I followed the guide “Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide” in the “new user howto”
kaffeine hangs - freezes when i try to change channel.
It hangs until i press a button, and then it comes with an error message:
“Cannot find demultiplexer plugin for the given media data”
Then if I try afgain - it works and the new channel comes up.
As a workaround, I can push the stop button in order to stop the current TV channel.
After this, I can change to a new TV channel without problem.
I noted that in 11.1 kaffeine briefly displays “pause” when changing TV channels.
I am using ffmpeg 0.520358 loaded from packmans repository for OpenSuse 11.2
I also tried downloading ffmpeg directly from ffmpeg.org
Still same problem
Just loaded suse 11.2 with dvb option and avermedia a180 HD card. Kaffeine will not scan any channels. Strange because it worked very well in suse 11.0
I have been trying to copy the channels.dvb file from my working 11.0 to 11.2 and Kaffeine 1. No can do.I have been reading the new improved Kaffeine bug reports . Well apparently. They have screwed things up with a new file structure. Just yesterday I was saying Kaffeine is the best dam software I have ever seen, it would play any file I threw at it. Today nada!!! too bad. I guess i will have to find something else that works.
FFMPG thanks. I will give it a try
Hi
The warning is normal, just keep an eye on it to see if it’s finding
active channels. If it didn’t start scanning then there would be an
issue with the hardware.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.37-0.1-default
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Thanks for the help. This is some sort of kernel problem with the ntx200x front end. nxt200x: Timeout waiting for nxt2004 to init.
It’s common with the latest linux kernel and the Pro’s seem to be working on it. Something about buffer this and buffer that, the man said. Just have to be patient and wait for a patch.
I have a avertv hd a180 card. I got it working in the latest Mandriva with help from linuxtv.org. This card needs the firmware file dvb-fe-nx2004.fw in the /lib/firmware in order to function. The new kaffeine also needs phonon-xine.
Bad news is. It is still not working in Suse 11.2.:’(
Kaffiene reports it cannot find the demultiplxer ?
The xine library provided by Suse has a lot of plugins missing because of software patents (for example, all mpeg related plugins). It’s recommended to install a “full” xine library that can be found at PackMan :: Startseite, too.
I have the exact same problem too. I’m using a Hauppauge PCI Nova card. Worked fine under 11.1 with the kde3 version of kaffeine. On the second attempt it works, but still a bit annoying.
That’s the one I still use. I tried Kaffeine 4 many times, even recently but it lacks a lot of features and is just not there - still has a long way to go.
The KDE 3 version of Kaffeine works fine. Pity that it doesn’t match the KDE 4 desktop.
