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Sundtek Media TV Pro Linux Installation
Sundtek:
If you want to install the device on a Settopbox please follow this link:
http://support.sundtek.com/index.php/topic,348.0.html
Now back to the installation on a regular Linux based system:
Sundtek MediaTV Pro/Gold are the world's first USB DVB-C, DVB-T, AnalogTV, Composite, S-Video, FM-Radio devices which are fully supported with Linux, our technology provides support for the entire 2.6.x Linux Kernel Series, unpatched Kernels are supported from 2.6.15 on. An installation usually takes a few seconds only.
http://www.sundtek.com/docs/sundtek_smart_facts.pdf
http://www.sundtek.com/docs/sundtek-architecture.pdf
The driver installation is currently mainly done on the console, we are working on providing a graphical installer lateron. The driver is developed by Sundtek Ltd. and runs as normal application (in userspace), if unexpected problems occur the system will not be affected by it, aside of that it has the advantage that it is not bound to any particular kernel version which makes difficult compiling unnecessary.
Minimum System requirements Linux 2.6.15/libc2.4+ 32 or 64 bit (which is basically supported by all distributions which have been available for the last 4 years/since 2006), 1.5 Ghz
Supported Architectures:
* Intel/AMD x86 (32/64 bit)
* ARM (eg. Sheevaplug)
* IBM PowerPC (eg. Sony Playstation 3 - first revision)
* MIPS
* MIPSel (eg. Dreambox)
* further builds are available uppon request
This installer supports following operating systems:
* Linux (Ubuntu, Redhat, Suse, Fedora, Mandriva, Gentoo, Mint, etc. die Software funktioniert uebergreifend und ist an keine spezielle Version gebunden).
* FreeBSD 8.0 (will be released soon)
* Apple (Sundtek MediaTV Gold/will be released soon, mediaclient commands will work, although the Apple support comes with an extra Mac based installer and extra TV application)
Please note that the linux 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 series have a bug in the USB System wich makes the memory usage of the Linux system grow, this causes the system to run out of memory after some time. You can read more about this issue and how to fix it on the Linux USB Mailinglist, it is probably easier to use Linux 2.6.15 - 2.6.26 or 2.6.29+.
The latest driver version can be downloaded from the Driver Board
In case you do not have a device but already want to play around with it, you can try to use our virtual demo driver which supports emulating video devices. After the installation just run "/opt/bin/mediaclient --tvdummy" for creating a virtual driver instance. Screenshot
open a console and run following line as root
--- Zitat ---$ wget http://www.sundtek.de/media/sundtek_netinst.sh
$ chmod 777 sundtek_netinst.sh
$ sudo ./sundtek_netinst.sh
Welcome to the Sundtek linux driver setup
Legal notice:
This software comes without any warranty, use it at your own risk
Nutzungsbedingungen:
Sundtek übernimmt keinerlei Haftung für Schäden welche eventuell durch
das System oder die angebotenen Dateien entstehen können.
Do you want to continue [Y/N]:
Wollen Sie fortfahren [J/N]:
y
stopping old driver instance...
installing em28xx driver to /opt
unpacking...
checking system... 64Bit System detected
installing...
finalizing configuration... (can take a few seconds)
installing libmediaclient interception library
Starting driver...
done.
--- Ende Zitat ---
If you just want to use the device quickly you can install our streaming server by running:
--- Zitat ---/opt/bin/mediaclient --installstreamer
--- Ende Zitat ---
Afterwards open your webbrowser and go to http://localhost:22000
The menu will guide you through the setup, and you'll be able to watch TV using VLC within a few minutes.
Available playlists after scanning:
http://localhost:22000/freesdtv.m3u
http://localhost:22000/freehdtv.m3u
http://localhost:22000/radio.m3u
for identifying the device in the system you can run following command:
--- Zitat ---$ /opt/bin/mediaclient -e
**** List of Media Hardware Devices ****
device 0: [ Sundtek MediaTV Pro] DVB-C, DVB-T, ANALOG-TV, FM-RADIO, REMOTE-CONTROL, OSS-AUDIO, RDS
[DVB-C]:
FRONTEND: /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
DVR: /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
DMX: /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0
[DVB-T]:
FRONTEND: /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
DVR: /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
DMX: /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0
[ANALOG-TV]:
VIDEO0: /dev/video1
VBI0: /dev/vbi0
[FM-RADIO]:
RADIO0: /dev/radio0
RDS: /dev/rds0
[REMOTECONTROL]:
INPUT0: /dev/mediainput0
[OSS]:
OSS0: /dev/dsp0
--- Ende Zitat ---
Deinterlacing
Deinterlacing is also supported:
Original (scrolling text):
Sundtek Enhanced Quality:
--- Code: ---Activate deinterlacer:
$ /opt/bin/mediaclient -d /dev/video1 --vfilter=on
Deinterlacer deaktivieren:
$ /opt/bin/mediaclient -d /dev/video1 --vfilter=off
--- Ende Code ---
Analogue TV/Composite/S-Video
for starting analogTV with tvtime:
--- Code: ---tvtime -d /dev/video1
--- Ende Code ---
by default most linux tv players do not support digital audio properly, in order to fix that problem our driver supports internal audio processing, which means that the driver automatically tries to play the available data to the default soundcard, while the TV application is just in charge of displaying the video.
For using the device with mplayer:
--- Code: ---$ mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video1
MPlayer SVN-r29305-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
Playing tv://.
TV file format detected.
Selected driver: v4l2
name: Video 4 Linux 2 input
author: Martin Olschewski <olschewski@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
comment: first try, more to come ;-)
Selected device: Sundtek MediaTV
Tuner cap: STEREO
Tuner rxs:
Capabilites: video capture VBI capture device tuner audio read/write streaming
supported norms: 0 = PAL-BG; 1 = PAL-DK; 2 = PAL-I; 3 = PAL-M; 4 = NTSC-M;
inputs: 0 = Television; 1 = Composite; 2 = S-Video;
Current input: 0
Current format: YUYV
--- Ende Code ---
The driver automatically tries to figure out the correct audio playback.
For using analogue TV with vlc, just start up VLC and select the corresponding capturedevice eg. /dev/video1 in our case
FM Radio
on the terminal using mediaclient:
--- Code: ---/opt/bin/mediaclient -f 90100000 -m RADIO -d /dev/radio0 -t 0
/opt/bin/mediaclient -m RADIO -d /dev/radio0 -c internal
/opt/bin/mediaclient -m RADIO -d /dev/radio0 --mute off
for disabling audio in the background:
/opt/bin/mediaclient -m RADIO -d /dev/radio0 --mute on
--- Ende Code ---
Console Application:
--- Zitat ---$ radio -c /dev/radio0
--- Ende Zitat ---
GUI Application (gnomeradio):
DVB-T
Kaffeine
the device has to be switched to DVB-T, this only has to be done once for using DVB-T:
--- Code: ---$ /opt/bin/mediaclient --setdtvmode=DVBT
$ kaffeine
--- Ende Code ---
VDR
(VDR also works with DVB-C)
--- Code: ---$ /opt/bin/mediaclient --setdtvmode=DVBT
$ vdr -P "xineliboutput --local=sxfe --video=xshm --local=none --primary --remote=127.0.0.1:37890" -v /var/lib/video.00/ -l 3
--- Ende Code ---
mplayer
--- Code: ---to switch the device to dvb-t mode
$ /opt/bin/mediaclient -D DVBT
$ scan dvb-apps/util/scan/dvb-t/de-Berlin
scanning dvb-apps/util/scan/dvb-t/de-Berlin
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
Frontend can not do INVERSION_AUTO, trying INVERSION_OFF instead
initial transponder 506000000 0 2 9 1 1 2 0
initial transponder 522000000 0 2 9 1 1 2 0
initial transponder 570000000 0 2 9 1 1 3 0
initial transponder 658000000 0 2 9 1 1 2 0
initial transponder 754000000 0 2 9 1 1 2 0
initial transponder 778000000 0 2 9 1 1 2 0
>>> tune to: 506000000:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE
0x0000 0x4015: pmt_pid 0x0150 RTL World -- RTL Television (running)
0x0000 0x4016: pmt_pid 0x0160 RTL World -- RTL2 (running)
0x0000 0x401b: pmt_pid 0x01b0 RTL World -- Super RTL (running)
0x0000 0x4022: pmt_pid 0x0220 RTL World -- VOX (running)
Network Name 'MEDIA BROADCAST'
etc.
--- Ende Code ---
--- Code: ---$ /opt/bin/mediaclient -m DVBT -f 506000000 -b 8
Using device: /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
Checking for lock:
. [LOCKED]
$ mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
oder
$ cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 | mplayer -cache 10240 -
--- Ende Code ---
DVB-C
kaffeine
for DVB-C the device has to be switched to DVB-C first by using the mediaclient command:
--- Code: ---$ /opt/bin/mediaclient --setdtvmode=DVBC
$ kaffeine
--- Ende Code ---
mplayer
--- Code: ---To switch the device to dvb-c mode:
$ /opt/bin/mediaclient -D DVBC
$ scan dvb-apps/util/scan/dvb-c/de-Berlin
scanning dvb-apps/util/scan/dvb-c/de-Berlin
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
initial transponder 113000000 6900000 0 3
initial transponder 346000000 6900000 0 5
initial transponder 522000000 6900000 0 5
initial transponder 402000000 6900000 0 5
initial transponder 378000000 6900000 0 3
initial transponder 378000000 6900000 0 3
initial transponder 394000000 6900000 0 3
initial transponder 466000000 6900000 0 3
>>> tune to: 113000000:INVERSION_AUTO:6900000:FEC_NONE:QAM_64
0x0000 0x6dca: pmt_pid 0x0064 ARD -- Das Erste (running)
0x0000 0x6dcb: pmt_pid 0x00c8 ARD -- Bayerisches FS Süd (running)
0x0000 0x6dcc: pmt_pid 0x012c ARD -- hr-fernsehen (running)
0x0000 0x6dce: pmt_pid 0x01f4 ARD -- Bayerisches FS Nord (running)
0x0000 0x6dcf: pmt_pid 0x0258 ARD -- WDR Köln (running)
0x0000 0x6dd0: pmt_pid 0x02bc ARD -- BR-alpha* (running)
0x0000 0x6dd1: pmt_pid 0x0320 ARD -- SWR Fernsehen BW (running)
--- Ende Code ---
--- Code: ---$ /opt/bin/mediaclient -m DVBC -f 113000000 -S 6900000 -M Q64
Using device: /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
Checking for lock:
. [LOCKED]
--- Ende Code ---
--- Code: ---$ mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
oder
$ cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 | mplayer -cache 10240 -
--- Ende Code ---
high resolution screenshot:
http://sundtek.com/images/dvbc-full.jpg
to remove the driver from the system:
--- Code: ---./sundtek_installer.sh -u
Sundtek em28xx linux driver setup
stopping em28xx driver...
removing driver
.......
driver successfully removed from system
--- Ende Code ---
Powersaving
The powersaving will be activated after 15 seconds of inactivity, after this time the device will start to cool down. Powersaving also increases the lifetime of the USB TV device.
Troubleshooting
it's possible that some applications already access the device driver during the bootup. This will cause the device to be set to the corresponding device mode.
To check which applications are accessing the driver you can run following command:
--- Zitat ---$ /opt/bin/mediaclient --lc
**** List of Media Clients ****
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0:
No client connected
/dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0:
No client connected
/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0:
No client connected
/dev/video1:
329 ... tvtime
/dev/vbi0:
No client connected
/dev/radio0:
No client connected
/dev/mediainput0:
No client connected
/dev/dsp0:
28289 ... mediasrv
--- Ende Zitat ---
please note tvtime does not support audio playback by itself, the multimedia framework itself is taking care about it, this also shows up the audio process being connected to the driver.
In order to disconnect (not to kill) tvtime from the driver following command can be used:
--- Zitat ---$ /opt/bin/mediaclient --dc 329
--- Ende Zitat ---
Pulseaudio
There are some useful pulseaudio tools available (for example pavucontrol). Pavucontrol allows to individually configure the audio volume. Since pulseaudio is not stable yet it might happen that the driver switches back to Alsa during the runtime.
pavucontrol:
pavumeter:
NVidia graphicdrivers:
http://www.nvidia.de/Download/index.aspx?lang=de
ATI graphicdrivers:
http://support.amd.com/de/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
Restricted Formats/Codecs Suse:
http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/11.0
http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/11.1
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Signalstrength:
By default the signalreporting returns 0% or 100%, this can be changed to a more accurate signalreporting by using following command:
--- Code: ---/opt/bin/mediaclient --signalreporting=1
--- Ende Code ---
(inaccurate reporting does not take such a long time to read the information from the device, with more accurate signalreporting mplayer won't run smoothly)
--- Code: ---Syntax:
/opt/bin/mediaclient -d /dev/video[n] --readsignal=[i]
whereas n is the videodevice (accordingly to /opt/bin/mediaclient -e) and i how often the signal should be read. If i is smaller or equal 0 the signalstatistics will only stop when the user interrupts the application.
Sample output:
SIGNAL: [.............................................................................................. ] 62225 (94%)
SIGNAL: [......................................................................................... ] 58950 (89%)
SIGNAL: [.............................................................................................. ] 62225 (94%)
SIGNAL: [.............................................................................................. ] 62225 (94%)
SIGNAL: [.............................................................................................. ] 62225 (94%)
SIGNAL: [............................................................................................ ] 60915 (92%)
--- Ende Code ---
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In order to decompress the drivers (eg. for a manual installation):
--- Zitat ---$ ./sundtek_installer.sh -e
--- Ende Zitat ---
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By default NULL packets (0x1fff) are filtered, in order to disable filtering following command can be used:
--- Zitat ---$ /opt/bin/mediaclient -d /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 --nullpackets=on
--- Ende Zitat ---
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In order to automatically start an application when the device gets plugged in or removed:
The configurationfile /etc/sundtek.conf can contain 2 parameters, device_attach and device_detach.
Those parameters can be used to start or reinitialize applications after the driver initialized a device.
Example:
/etc/sundtek.conf
device_attach=/usr/bin/usb_deviceattach.sh DEVID
device_detach=/usr/bin/usb_devicedetach.sh DEVID
DEVID will automatically be replaced with the device ID which is also returned by /opt/bin/mediaclient -e
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Changing the transfermode for DVB-T/C from Isochronous to Bulk (some embedded PCs do not support Isochronous transfer with linux), this option can also work around some possible kernel isochronous bugs which are in 2.6.26-2.6.29 and 2.6.32.9 - 2.6.33.1.
By default when the devices are shipped, the device will be in Isochronous mode
--- Zitat ---In order to change the device to isochronous mode:
$ /opt/bin/mediaclient --dtvtransfermode=iso -d /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
Setting transfermode to Isochronous
Please reconnect your device in order to activate the transfer mode change
To change it to Bulk:
$ /opt/bin/mediaclient --dtvtransfermode=bulk -d /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
Setting transfermode to Bulk
Please reconnect your device in order to activate the transfer mode change
--- Ende Zitat ---
After switching the mode the device needs to be replugged
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Hardware PID Filter
In order to use the hardware PID filter it needs to be enabled. The USB TV tuner supports up to 15 PID filters. The PID Filters can lower the required USB 2.0 bandwidth significantly - this is recommended for embedded PCs.
Enable Hardware PID filter:
--- Zitat ---/opt/bin/mediaclient -P on
--- Ende Zitat ---
Disable Hardware PID filter:
--- Zitat ---/opt/bin/mediaclient -P off
--- Ende Zitat ---
Show up the registered PID table:
--- Zitat ---$ /opt/bin/mediaclient -w
Using device: /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
ID | PID
----------
0000 | 0x0001 - 1
0001 | 0x175c - 5980
0002 | 0x0899 - 2201
0003 | 0x089a - 2202
0004 | 0x089b - 2203
0005 | 0x0012 - 18
0006 | 0x1500 - 5376
0007 | 0x1501 - 5377
0008 | 0x1505 - 5381
--- Ende Zitat ---
The command which shows up which clients are connected now also shows up which PIDs are filtered:
--- Zitat ---$ /opt/bin/mediaclient --lc
**** List of Media Clients ****
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0:
897 ... mediasrv
/dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0:
897 ... mediasrv
/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0:
897 ... mediasrv (0899)
897 ... mediasrv (089a)
897 ... mediasrv (089b)
897 ... mediasrv (0012)
897 ... mediasrv (1500)
897 ... mediasrv (1501)
897 ... mediasrv (1505)
897 ... mediasrv (0001)
897 ... mediasrv (175c)
/dev/video0:
No client connected
/dev/vbi0:
No client connected
/dev/radio0:
No client connected
/dev/rds0:
No client connected
/dev/mediainput0:
No client connected
/dev/dsp0:
No client connected
--- Ende Zitat ---
fpbx:
Hallo Sundtek,
Als absoluter Neuling in der Linux Multimediasoftware (Daten-, Mail- und VoIP-Server klappen gut), habe ich das Problem der unterschiedlichsten Bedienkonzepte der einzelnen Anwendungungen. Als stimmige Lösung fand ich nun xawtv. Hier klappen wohl FM-Radio, Analog-TV, DCVB-T und Recording für alles. Hier im Forum fand ich allerdings sehr wenig dazu. Gibt es hierzu Erfahrungen oder Tipps? Die mitgelieferte Fernbedienung zu dem Stick ist ja nun auch nicht der Brüller, zu dem sie nach 2 Wochen Betrieb ohne Vorankündigung aufgrund leerer Batterie ihren Geist aufgab. Nun soll das Ganze ja wohl auch mit dem Terratec-Dingens gehen. Ist es dieses ?:
http://www.amazon.de/TERRATEC-Fernbedienung-incl-USB-Empfaenger-funktioniert/dp/B0011ECJ2Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311186659&sr=8-1
Benötige ich den USB-Empfänger oder kann der Mediastick dies? Wenn ich noch ein USB-Teil an meinen HTPC anschliesse, sieht er aus wie ein Igel und fliegt dann wohl aus dem Wohnzimmer raus.
Gibt es für diese Fernbedienung mit dem Mediastick irgendwelche .conf's?
Mag sein, ich bin zu blöd, aber wäre es nicht schön, wenn in diesem Forum HowTos und DoKus von"vorne bis hinten", d.h. vollständig dargestellt würden und nicht immer nur ansatzweise: Wie "friß oder stirb?"
fpx aus Berlin
Sundtek:
Der USB Empfänger unterstützt RC5, RC6 und NEC, der USB Empfänger hat einen eigenen Sensor, praktisch funktioniert jede Fernbedienung welche diese Protolle unterstützen.
Die angegebene Fernbedienung funktioniert ohne zusätzlichen USB Sensor.
http://support.sundtek.com/index.php/topic,615.0.html
(bitte beachten dies ist das englische Forum, wir werden diese Frage demnächst in's deutsche Forum verschieben).
Wir hatten vor einiger Zeit noch ein Wiki für die Dokumentation, das Wiki wurde jedoch aufgrund der Spamproblematik vom Netz genommen.
Da wir dieses Problem mittlerweile insbesondere im Forum unter Kontrolle bekommen haben können wir das demnächst nocheinmal angehen.
fpbx:
Na das wäre doch eine super Idee. Ich hätte da noch eine - wie wäre es, den Mediastick mit einer vernünftigen Fernbedienung incl. lirc-Support zu verkaufen? Meine mitgelieferte sagt keinen Mucks mehr und geht jetzt retour. Hab mir das Terratec - Teil bestellt.
franksvan:
Hi sundtek
Im having a problem with my ubuntu 10.04 installation.
my setup contains a hauppauge tuner & remote and a sundtek mediatv pro tuner
When installing the sundtek driver, my hauppauge remote stops responding.
Now - i actually have had the same problem before on a 9.04 installation http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1458585.html where the solution was:
"sudo rm -rf /etc/udev/rules.d/80-remote-eeti.rules /lib/udev/rules.d/80-remote-eeti.rules"
The script which finally causes the modification:
"/opt/bin/lirc.sh"
This however does not work in the 10.04 installation.
I also have tried to delete "/opt/bin/lirc.sh" but nothing helps.
Can you please help me
My best regards
Frank Svan
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