This is my first post as I am REALLY stuck understanding why Kaffeine won’t display TV or play sound for more than a few seconds. Admittedly I have never had this working on the Gigabyte Brix that I am using on my TV. The device specs are as follows:
PC: Gigabyte Brix GB-BS-i3H-6100 (i3, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD)
Tuner: AverTV Voltar Green HD USB 2.0 (detects as Afatech AF9033 (DVB-T), same on my laptop which works)
I can confirm that this works perfectly on my laptop (Leap 42.1), in both the USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports.
On the BRIX it detects and scans perfectly, but when it attempts to play a channel it will play sound sound from the channel for about 10 seconds (black screen), then nothing. If I select another channel, nothing. I have to close/open Kaffeine again to get it to play sound again.
I’m not sure if there are logs that I can find that would help troubleshoot as Kaffeine does detect and scan (no errors that I can see). I’m thinking it might be to do with the fact that the brix only has USB 3.0, but it works on the USB 3.0 port on my laptop.
I found the issue, stupid really. On the TV Screen area I right clicked, video, and unchecked the ‘Deinterlace’ box. That seems to have resolved the issue, I now have stable TV and the sounds seems to have corrected as well. I still can’t view HD channels, but I can live with that!
Like I said, I’m on TW and my superuser upgraded me to 2.0.4
(I fail to see how the fact that my superuser = me has any relevance to this discussion … okay, maybe just a little bit…)
For the record, I noticed this just yesterday myself – I’d been planning for a while to see if a 1.2.2 version was still made available (but I haven’t been watching TV on my system lately, so it hasn’t been on the top of my mind)*. Upon checking I discovered it was and the faulty assumption that was made … I must have pulled it in by mistake (or perhaps purposely, but I don’t remember) around the same time as a whack of 5.8 stuff was, and had assumed that it had been switched over in mainline due to the push to transition to QT5
Though its relatively painless to switch between the two, it would have (theoretically) been nice if the two could be installed simultaneously …(I would have gone with naming Kaffeine 2 something like Koffee until a more stable or feature comparable development version could be offered)
PS - I know that you’d mentioned this in the other post, but it didn’t register at the time
