[MPlayer-users] failure to use dvb://xxxx with DVB-S card

[Nico]

Hans Werschner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to use the 1.0pre3 and the CVS 20040223 version of mplayer to 
> do a "mplayer dvb://ARD" tune in (in Germany)
> and constantly get a timeout for the tune trial. dvbstream is working 
> fine and szap also.
>
> I have scanned the sources and discover that dvbin.c / dvb_tune.c are 
> based on code of dvbstream. The source there
> in versions 0.4 and 0.5 both are using an initialized variable specInv 
> (=INVERSION_AUTO) value when calling tune_it
> resp dvb_tune ind dvb_tune.c. This is OK for non DVB-S as this field 
> gets a proper value but DVB-S does not set a value in dvbin.c as 
> channel->inv is not set for DVB-S.
>
There isn't an INVERSION field in szap's / mplayer's  config file for DVB-S.
Besides, neither szap nor dvbstream set a different value to specInv for 
DVB-S, so if they work mplayer should  work too.

> When I follow the processing in dvb_tune.c, I find that the parameter 
> is assigned "feparams.inversion=specInv;" also for DVB-S cards but 
> must have an undefined value at this point. At least I am unsure that 
> INVERSION_AUTO is the default.
>

can you tune if you set it to INVERSION_OFF or INVERSION_ON ?

> Can you verify my findings?
> Regards,
> Hans
>

please post the log of

mplayer -v dvb://ARD >& log

                Nico