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Comment on from firefox to epiphany/gecko to epiphany/webkit by alan

alan — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:56:21 +0000

i don’t know what to think

Comment on howto run a TechniSat Skystar HD2 on linux by Mehdi karamanejad

Mehdi karamanejad — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:50:48 +0000

I’ve run szap-s2 as following:(device 1 is a dvbloopback device which contains channel decrypted by sasc-ng)
./szap-s2 -a 1 -c hditaly.conf -r -p ‘CANAL+ SPORT HD;CYFRA +’ -H
(szap-s2 doesn’t show signal receiving rate when -p option is given but without -p I can see receiving rate )

then I try mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter1/dvr0
this is mplayer output :
MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /dev/dvb/adapter1/dvr0.
TS file format detected.
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=361) NO AUDIO! NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 0

sometimes it plays a little audio(with disconnection back and forth ) and no video
what seems to be wrong?

PS: I have h264 codec installed,ffmpeg,mad,gstreamer etc..

Comment on howto run a TechniSat Skystar HD2 on linux by Dobromir Dobrev

Dobromir Dobrev — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:00:30 +0000

Hello,
Here is what I get with newest drivers:

[ 7.134256] Pid: 1144, comm: kdvb-ca-0:0 Not tainted 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 #2 ALiveNF6G-VSTA/To Be Filled By O.E.M.
[ 7.134256] RIP: 0010:[] [] mantis_ca_slot_reset+0×4f/0×89 [mantis]
[ 7.134256] RSP: 0018:ffff88007c28fe70 EFLAGS: 00010296
[ 7.134256] RAX: ffffffff810c9166 RBX: ffff88007c39c000 RCX: 00000000696d77e2
[ 7.134256] RDX: 00000000000000da RSI: 00000000696d77e2 RDI: 0000000000129fc4
[ 7.134256] RBP: ffff88007c28fe80 R08: 0000000000000064 R09: 0000000000000001
[ 7.134256] R10: ffff88007c1fbc18 R11: 0000000000014880 R12: ffff88007cbfae00
[ 7.134256] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88007b860000
[ 7.134256] FS: 00007f92fd68f730(0000) GS:ffff880002100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 7.134256] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[ 7.134256] CR2: ffffffff810c9166 CR3: 000000007c054000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[ 7.141733] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 7.141733] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 7.141733] Process kdvb-ca-0:0 (pid: 1144, threadinfo ffff88007c28e000, task ffff88007b860000)
[ 7.141733] Stack:
[ 7.141733] ffff88007ca1d840 ffff88007b059c18 ffff88007c28fee0 ffffffffa0006048
[ 7.141733] ffff88007db8b000 0000000000000000 ffffffffa0005f27 0000000000000292
[ 7.141733] 000000017c28fee0 ffff88007c28fef8 ffff88007b059c18 ffff88007ca1d840
[ 7.141733] Call Trace:
[ 7.141733] [] dvb_ca_en50221_thread+0×121/0×5a1 [dvb_core]
[ 7.141733] [] ? dvb_ca_en50221_thread+0×0/0×5a1 [dvb_core]
[ 7.141733] [] ? dvb_ca_en50221_thread+0×0/0×5a1 [dvb_core]
[ 7.141733] [] kthread+0×7d/0×85
[ 7.141733] [] kernel_thread_helper+0×4/0×10
[ 7.141733] [] ? kthread+0×0/0×85
[ 7.141733] [] ? kernel_thread_helper+0×0/0×10
[ 7.141733] Code: 5d fb 0f a0 48 c7 c6 00 d5 0f a0 31 c0 e8 e3 cb 40 e1 bf ac c4 20 00 e8 04 f5 14 e1 48 8b 43 20 ba da 00 00 00 48 05 a8 00 00 00 10 bf ac c4 20 00 e8 e9 f4 14 e1 48 8b 43 20 31 d2 48 05 a8
[ 7.141733] RIP [] mantis_ca_slot_reset+0×4f/0×89 [mantis]
[ 7.141733] RSP
[ 7.141733] CR2: ffffffff810c9166
[ 7.141733] —[ end trace b227e3e78f0f9fdc ]—

Does anyone have any idea does this mean?
I think that CAM is not initializing…right?

Comment on howto run a TechniSat Skystar HD2 on linux by munzli

munzli — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:08:58 +0000

some people have noted that cam module works… i tried briefly and didn’t get it working with a viaccess card -> it doesn’t init properly. but if you have more information i’d love to hear about it

Comment on howto run a TechniSat Skystar HD2 on linux by Dobromir Dobrev

Dobromir Dobrev — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:08:32 +0000

Hello.
How about the CI/CAM development?
Is it already working or WIP marked?
I’m buying one for a test with Irdeto CA module
Thanks.

Comment on lirc and LCDproc for Soundgraph iMON changes by munzli

munzli — Mon, 10 May 2010 08:17:39 +0000

check inside /etc/modprobe.d if theres already a file that contains options for lirc. if there isn’t one make a new one (i think ubuntu expects it to be called *.conf for it to work)

Comment on lirc and LCDproc for Soundgraph iMON changes by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:30:40 +0000

Thanks for sharing.

In which file does one need to change the “options lirc_imon display_type=1″? …thanks

Comment on lirc and LCDproc for Soundgraph iMON changes by name

name — Tue, 04 May 2010 08:05:20 +0000

Great site. Keep doing.,

Comment on howto run a TechniSat Skystar HD2 on linux by Lou

Lou — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:10:15 +0000

@Munzli: Are you satisfied with the tuning speed of the current driver state? I still think it’s rather slow compared to settop boxes.

Here are my observations with a 1041 (same design as SS HD2):

-Tuning time between 2-3 seconds, sometimes longer, it depends on the frequency
-quite frequent missed locks at first try, instant lock on the same channel with the second try

I think this driver misses some final polish to offer satisfying results.

BTW: With Kernel 2.6.33 the mantis bridge has finally become part of the kernel.

Comment on howto run a TechniSat Skystar HD2 on linux by munzli

munzli — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:09:22 +0000

UPDATE!

to get this card working just normaly install mythtv and use this driver: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Azurewave_AD_SP400_CI_(VP-1041)#Mantis_driver

if compiling fails because of FiredTV just run:
sudo make menuconfig
and disable -> Multimedia Support -> DVB/ATSC Adapter -> Firedtv/Floppydtv