TVH with Analog PCI tuner on Debian
Added by Alex A over 10 years ago
Hello,
I'm using an "Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 FM" Analog PCI card (no dvb!) connected to Coax, on Debian 7.6 netinst (without X server) and I'm trying to configure it with TVH to be able to stream it.
saa7133[0]: found at 0000:00:0b.0, rev: 208, irq: 19, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfebfe800 saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:f31f, board: Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 FM [card=57,autodetected] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 80788 Registered IR keymap rc-avermedia input: saa7134 IR (Avermedia AVerTV GO as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/rc/rc0/input6 rc0: saa7134 IR (Avermedia AVerTV GO as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/rc/rc0 [...] tuner 4-004b: Tuner -1 found with type(s) Radio TV. tda829x 4-004b: setting tuner address to 61 tda829x 4-004b: type set to tda8290+75 saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0 saa7133[0]: registered device radio0 saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xfebfe800 irq 19 registered as card -1
ls -lh /dev/video* crw-rw-rwT 1 root video 81, 0 Jul 20 11:59 /dev/video0
Problem is I've never dealt with this situation before, so I'm using a multitude of software (found while googling) in order to at least capture some input from /dev/video0.
Here are my attempts:
v4l2-ctl -I ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT Input : 0 Name : Television Tuner : 0x00000000 [...] Standard : 0x0000000000FFBFFF (PAL-B/B1/G/H/I/D/D1/K/M/N/Nc/60 NTSC-M/M-JP/M-KR SECAM-B/D/G/H/K/K1/L/Lc) Status : 0x00010100 (no hsync lock., no sync lock) Capabilities: 0x00000004 (SD presets) Input : 1 Name : Composite1 Tuner : 0x00000000 [...] Standard : 0x0000000000FFBFFF (PAL-B/B1/G/H/I/D/D1/K/M/N/Nc/60 NTSC-M/M-JP/M-KR SECAM-B/D/G/H/K/K1/L/Lc) Status : 0x00000000 (ok) Capabilities: 0x00000004 (SD presets) Input : 2 Name : S-Video Tuner : 0x00000000 [...] Standard : 0x0000000000FFBFFF (PAL-B/B1/G/H/I/D/D1/K/M/N/Nc/60 NTSC-M/M-JP/M-KR SECAM-B/D/G/H/K/K1/L/Lc) Status : 0x00000000 (ok) Capabilities: 0x00000004 (SD presets)
v4l2-ctl -I Video input : 0 (Television: no hsync lock., no sync lock)
tvtime-scanner cat /root/.tvtime/stationlist.xml <list norm="PAL" frequencies="Custom" audio="bg"> <station name="112.25MHz" active="1" position="1" band="Custom" channel="112.25MHz" finetune="0"/> <station name="119.25MHz" active="1" position="2" band="Custom" channel="119.25MHz" finetune="0"/> <station name="126.25MHz" active="1" position="3" band="Custom" channel="126.25MHz" finetune="0"/> [...] ivtv-tune --list-freqtable ivtv-tune --freqtable=europe-east -l [...] SE2 112.250 SE3 119.250 SE4 126.250 [...] ivtv-tune -d /dev/video0 -t europe-east -c63 #random channel selection /dev/video0: 807.250 MHz (Signal Detected) cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg #VLC or MPC unable to open it
Installed TVH from deb, but got:
tvheadend[7316]: v4l: /dev/video0: Device lacks MPEG encoder, device skipped
So I've compiled the 3.6 branch from git with the following change to src/v4l.c: int can_mpeg = 1;
(instead of = 0).
./configure --enable-v4l --disable-linuxdvb --disable-dvbscan
After some testing and more googling, I've also changed these in src/v4l.c:
vf.frequency = (frequency * 16) / 1000;
(instead of / 1000000;)unsigned int frequency = t->s_v4l_frequency;
(instead of int frequency = t->s_v4l_frequency;)and recompiled.
tvheadend -C -c .hts/
Pasted to pastebin because it's too long: http://pastebin.com/THbgz3iB
I've also configured the EPG grabber (selected just 5 channels for the sake of speed):
/usr/bin/tv_grab_huro --configure using config filename /root/.xmltv/tv_grab_huro.conf Grab listings for which country? 0: Czech 1: Hungary 2: Romania 3: Slovakia Select one: [0,1,2,3 (default=1)] 2 getting list of channels: ################################################## add channel TVR 1? [yes,no,all,none (default=yes)] yes add channel TVR 2? [yes,no,all,none (default=yes)] add channel HBO? [yes,no,all,none (default=yes)] add channel Acas▒ TV? [yes,no,all,none (default=yes)] add channel Prima TV? [yes,no,all,none (default=yes)]
Alright, I can see my tuner in DVB Inputs / TV Adapters:
Hardware Device path: /dev/video0 Device name: Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 FM saa7134 PCI:0000:00:0b.0 Status Currently tuned to: - inactive -
Configuration / DVB Inputs / TV Adapters / Services is empty
Configuration / "Channel/EPG" / Channels is empty
I've tried manually adding some Services in 'Configuration / DVB Inputs / TV Adapters / Services' (before and after the Frequency hack in v4l.c) and then to 'Configuration / "Channel/EPG" / Channels'. I've used frequencies the scanner found but for names I just used "test" - don't know if it matters. After hitting Play I get this in the log:
v4l: /dev/video0: Tuned to 735000000Hz tvheadend[2544]: subscription: "HTTP" subscribing on "test2", weight: 100, adapter: "Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 FM saa7134 PCI:0000:00:0b.0", network: "<N/A>", mux: "735000000 Hz", provider: "<N/A>", service: "<N/A>", quality: 100 tvheadend[2544]: webui: Couldn't start streaming /stream/channelid/5, No input detected tvheadend[2544]: subscription: "HTTP" unsubscribing from "test2"
or
tvheadend[28512]: v4l: /dev/video0: Tuned to 783000Hz tvheadend[28512]: subscription: "HTTP" subscribing on "test", weight: 100, adapter: "Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 FM saa7134 PCI:0000:00:0b.0", network: "<N/A>", mux: "783000 Hz", provider: "<N/A>", service: "<N/A>", quality: 100 tvheadend[28512]: webui: Couldn't start streaming /stream/channelid/1?ticket=B0748D11013C1C06AFB79B792C1591790288E8E8, No input detected tvheadend[28512]: subscription: "HTTP" unsubscribing from "test"
or
v4l: /dev/video0: Tuned to 783Hz debian tvheadend[2544]: subscription: "HTTP" subscribing on "test", weight: 100, adapter: "Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 FM saa7134 PCI:0000:00:0b.0", network: "<N/A>", mux: "783 Hz", provider: "<N/A>", service: "<N/A>", quality: 100 tvheadend[2544]: webui: Couldn't start streaming /stream/channelid/6, No input detected tvheadend[2544]: subscription: "HTTP" unsubscribing from "test"
I don't know what I should do next. Any help is greatly appreciated, especially after 2 days of googling X_X
Replies (2)
RE: TVH with Analog PCI tuner on Debian - Added by Jos E over 10 years ago
As far as I know, Analog TV is not supported by TvHeadend, only digital broadcasts are... So it would require some re-wrapping the analog signal to a DVB-standard. Not impossible, someone probably did it already, but is it worth so many hacking ?
I mean, MythTV does support Analog broadcasts; perhaps it is worth investigating that option at http://www.mythtv.org/
RE: TVH with Analog PCI tuner on Debian - Added by Alex A over 10 years ago
Hi Jos,
I have, too, read that TVH generally doesn't support analog tv, but I've also read a few people's threads which indicated they managed doing that. Obviously none describe how they've done it (hence me posting here ).
It's also confusing and contradictory to TVH's own description on the main page, which states "Tvheadend is a TV streaming server for Linux supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, IPTV, and Analog video (V4L) as input sources". I mean you either support it or don't
In re to MythTV, I'm not sure I want to use that. The point was to use (after this initial test) two Raspberry Pis, one for the backend and another one running OpenElec with TVH add-on, and stream on the TV set. I also liked that there is a TVH client for Android. A lot more flexibility if TVH would actually work...