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List:       linux-video
Subject:    Re: A few xawtv questions
From:       Sid Boyce <sboyce () blueyonder ! co ! uk>
Date:       2005-05-23 0:20:16
Message-ID: 429121C0.9080401 () blueyonder ! co ! uk
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Rick Miles wrote:
> I have my fusion dvb-t plus card set up on slack-10.1 with 2.6.11.9 patched 
> and doing what it is supposed to do. 
> 
> I can view local broadcast (Melb/Australia) stations with tzap then dvbstream 
> to an mpg file on hardrive then can view with something like kaboodle or 
> noatune. Reception is good.
> 
> My next step is to get xawtv working. I have compiled/installed xawtv-4.pre 
> and card is recognised. I've fiddled around a bit but I not sure if I have 
> things right.
> 
> (1) in .tv/options all I have are 
> "[global]
> freqtab = australia
> use-xext-opengl = false
> use-xext-xvideo = false"
> should rhere be more, is there a sample/explanation somewhere?
> 
> (2) .tv/stations is empty. Should it be, if not do I edit manually or are 
> entries made by xawtv?
> 
Right-click on xawtv and the menu opens.... Edit --> Scan DVB should 
collect stations. Edit --> Add Station opens another window, then 
against (Digital TV) TSID/PNR, select the pull down, select a station, 
fill in the "Name" at the top, then "Apply", repeat until done and Edit 
--> Save Stations.

> (3)When xawtv is opened there is an error message saying xvideo is missing, is 
> this a problem, I still get a xawtv 4 display? the error message is:
> "This is xawtv 4.0-pre, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.11.9)
> Xlib:  extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0"."
> 
> (4) After adding station I can set it for viewing but get audio plus message 
> saying can't play video stream. Is this beacuse of xvideo missing error ir is 
> this something else, if not xvideo problem how do I troubleshoot?
> 
> (5) Does xawtv control devices/processes? If so should they close/stop when 
> xawtv shuts down?
> 
> Any help would be welcome. TIA
> 


 From a posting I did a day or so ago to this mailing list.
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I wonder what dmesg shows. There are different types of Winfast 2000 
cards. FWIW, I'm using a hauppaugue Nova-T Winfast 2000 XP with kernel 
2.6.12-rc4 vanilla which fully supports my card without needing patches 
and kaffeine without problems. I had the same problems with xawtv until 
yesterday. I grabbed the latest xawtv snapshot from 
http://dl.bytesex.org/cvs-snapshots/ and tried various configure options 
until I got it to work, but building and installing libdv so it could 
use "--enable-dv" seemed to be the answer, though I still have a problem 
with getting it to do fullscreen, it just occupies half the screen no 
matter what resolution I give it. For xawtv I use:-
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-alsa --enable-lirc --enable-zvbi 
--enable-mpeg2 --enable-dvb --enable-arts --enable-xfree-ext 
--enable-xvideo --enable-mmx --enable-dv --enable-quicktime
Hope this helps.
Regards
Sid.
-- 
Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot
Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks

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