Openelec und Media-Pro DVB-T

[Sundtek]

It's still on the list here.. Especially since the encoder is already supported, it just needs some fine tuning.

[blubber]

Hi

Any news on the anolog TV using tvheadend on openelec?

This would be really appreciated, as my provider scrambles all digital channels, including the government funded ones.

Cheers

[Sundtek]

There has been an update on the encoding support last week, seems like it needs some fine tuning now to get it work.

To add encoding support via FFMPEG you can run following command:

sudo -s
cd /tmp
wget http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=4tJerscY -O build.sh
chmod 777 build.sh
./build.sh

this script finally puts the codecs to /opt/bin/plugins

After replugging the device the driver will be able to output MPEG2 Video, the command above requires a development system to work.

But as mentioned it will need some finetuning for tvheadend, it won't work with it yet. On the other side it might be easier to finetune tvheadend to support that one right now.

[blubber]

Wow, super fast response

If I can be of help testing something please let me know.

edit: some testing that does not require compiling ... :/

[ultraman]

On the other side it might be easier to finetune tvheadend to support that one right now.

I wouldn't count on that from my experience.

[ultraman]

Is it possible to use multiple USB Sundtek tuners at the same time? One tuner for watching while another recording.

[Sundtek]

Of course! We tested 3 DVB-C Tuners with a weak notebook.
Tuners can also be mixed, DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S/S2, devices via network.

[ultraman]

Of course

I was at work and before testing at home I investigate this thing.
In my addon for OpenELEC I have support for only one tuner. Now I add few lines to support multiple tuners. The problem is with tvheadend which doesn't use tuners if they are added after tvheadend is already running. That's why I first start this driver (mediasrv daemon) and wait for all tuners to appear. After that I start tvheadend which is then using all tuners.

[Sundtek]

ultraman:

http://support.sundtek.com/index.php/topic,800.msg5845.html#new

this might be something for you, with old drivers the parameter mentioned will be discarded and have no effect so it might be something you could add to your current config file.
The update which supports that parameter will be released soon.

[ultraman]

Great! Will try it out.

For now I just count the numbers of called device_attach. And after that I start tvheadend. Like user write back "Works perfect !"

[Sundtek]

The driver has reached PVR support - which means analogTV should be possible with the hybrid DVB-C/T/AnalogTV Sticks.
We did some quick tests here with mplayer, VLC and tvheadend it worked so far!

Although one problem is that tvheadend does not support dynamical switching between AnalogTV and DVB it seems.
Once the DVB adapter is open the Analog frontend won't be accessible. However it's possible to block the digital TV frontend of our driver in order to have analogTV only support at least.
Also the scheduled capture for analogTV seems to work.

For PVR support the driver requires some codec support (eg. ffmpeg)

FFMPEG:

sudo -s
cd /tmp
wget http://sundtek.de/support/buildffmpeg.sh
chmod 777 build.sh
./build.sh

Update:
the driver is updated now