Ok dont look any further for the feint hearted, I have been trying to solve this with the help of pretty knowledgeable guys for over a month spanning over a year, and I just got close in the last 24 hours but still no luck.
All right I just scanned again with my little funky antennae and got my third ATSC channel and my first non=interupted audio but not a hint of video and not a hint of success with cable (NTSC)
Deep breath … too much to tell but the basics
HP Digital Analog Tuner Card
also called Hauppaauge WinTV HVR1500
Driver cx23885, also xc5000 driver
using Kaffeine with the limited ATSC success
tried MeTV, MoTV, TV Time, XAWTV …
and generally they only pick up my webcam (video0)
Kaffeine was half of my problem and it is now fixed, with at least my funky antennae picking up a single channel and playing a program … the first thing that hardware has ever picked up in 13 months of linux, now for cable!!!
and Here was nmy Kaffeine fix,
Arghhhhh, not too straight forward from my point of view but here is what DID and DIDNT work, for those with similar problems:
DIDN’T
changing everything over to packman from yast2 (though Yast2 seems way better than Yast to me)
zypper removing all the items from the install list, then removing the videoLan repository, than zypper installing them again
individually checking each one to make sure it was from the packman repository, or
removing Kaffeine and installing it from the Packman website with the one-click
What DID work !!! ,
was after all of this removing Kaffeine again and installing the KDE version from Packman and even that was convoluted,…
My Newbie overview opinion says it needed to be the KDE version even for a Gnome desktop (and Suse should know that, arghh), as well as I bet that the videoLan repo being enabled was causing problems when I should have only had OSS, non-OSS, update, and packman repositories enabled (strange rule for a noobie), no cross pollinating huh, hahaha
now just to figure out how to get it to work with my analog cable!!! any help here would be great, please refer to …
My Last Major Linux Glitch the TV Tuner Card - openSUSE Forums
Hi
You would need to scan from the files in /usr/share/dvd/dvb-c/ else I
guess find one for your area if it doesn’t exist there. I only use FTA
with the atsc directory.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop
up 0:32, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.48, 0.43
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME
Hi
You will need to search for a Canada file to scan from, maybe linux-dvd
site? Then it would be;
scan <your_scan_file> -o zap | tee ~/channels.conf
That would put the scan into channels.conf for you to move/rename as
required by the dvb application.
Kmplayer maybe? It’s just the front end to Mplayer. For mplayer run it
once to create a ~/.mplayer directory, then copy the channels.conf
file into the directory.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop
up 1:18, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.09, 0.09
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME
Sorrry for my ignorance but I am stuck at the point of finding a Canada file to scan from…
from the “You will need to search for a Canada file to scan from”,
this is new to me and I have tried google the linux-tv website for half an hour with no luck, any suggestions where I might find an appropriate Canada channels file??
and any idea why I can’t find kmplayer in Yast or through:
zypper install kmplayer,
and remember I am using Gnome,
I even found a download for it but it told me to cmake it and ran with errors
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:84 (MESSAGE):
ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in
/home/ack/.kde4/share/apps;/usr/share/kde4/apps
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:10 (find_package)
and any idea why I can’t find kmplayer in Yast or through:
zypper install kmplayer,
and remember I am using Gnome,
I even found a download for it but it told me to cmake it and ran with errors
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:84 (MESSAGE):
ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in
/home/ack/.kde4/share/apps;/usr/share/kde4/apps
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:10 (find_package)
this is getting tiring, phewwwww
and thanks
EDIT, I found a solution to cmake Kmplayer, it was
zypper install libkde4-devel, and all it’s dependencies. Then it was able to cmake
but it runs only from terminal and so far on with with an empty screen when watching an avi file
new solutions only leeding to new problems arghhhh
ok now I have smplayer and kmplayer and I don’t know how to configure either of them for the tv tuner card,
especially the big problem of getting my HP Tuner Card also known as, rebranded as an hvr1500q (cx2388 and xc5000 drivers), that now gets an over the air ATSC (digital) channel, YAHHHOOOO,
but nothing analog from over the air or from cable.
Boy if someone could solve this a lot of linux users would be happy!
Thanks I tried that but everything now seems to confirm that the HVR1500Q, HP analog/digital, cx23885’s xc5000 driver for linux only supports digital though another new friend in this endeavor says that “they” are currently working on fixing the driver to make it work with both it’s designed functions.
Wow if anyone knows anything about that I would be not only amazed but very thankful … its not very good closure at the moment …haha;)
I’m surprised you got this card to work! Kudos.
I’ve been fighting with it for some time now and can’t even get scan to give me anything but proliferating error messages in dmesg. Looks like it tries to load, and then completely craps out. I’ve tried the firmware trick to no luck.
Looks like the frontend works, but the xc5000 is totally borked. any ideas?
I’m NOT AT ALL impressed by this product. Exceptionally bad QC, and their windows software is an alpha product at best. Crashes when you look at it wrong.
Note: Though the usual directory location in which the firmware file is placed is /lib/firmware, this may differ in the case of some distros; consult your distro’s documentation for the appropriate location.
The firmware will be added lazily (on-demand) when you first use the driver.
Kernel 2.6.31 firmware issues
When running this kernel version, loading of the firmware takes very long, and prevents MythTV from working properly. To deal with this problem you can use xc5000’s no_poweroff=1 module option, to prevent the device from sleeping (after which firmware has to be reloaded)
Drivers
The xc5000 driver needed for this WinTV-HVR-950Q is already part of the latest Linux kernel (part of v4l-dvb drivers).
Analog support was merged into the mainline v4l-dvb tree on March 18, 2009.
Note: In the past, the HVR-950Q has had known issues with MythTV that prevent it from working. These should be fixed with the latest version. They were worked by the 950q maintainer (Devin Heitmueller). For more details, take a look at the KernelLabs blog for status updates: KernelLabs Blog
> wget -q http://www.steventoth.net/linux/xc5000/extract.sh
> sh extract.sh
> cp dvb-fe-xc5000-1.1.fw /lib/firmware
