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Users / HD-5500 Tuner - Trouble Tuning NTSC

« on: January 29, 2011, 03:48:45 pm »

Using HD-5500 Hi Definition Television PCI Card - pchdtv - card tunes Comcast Cable High QAM-256 ok.

Comcast is moving to digital transport only and is giving out Digital Transport Adaptors which tune all the digital channels you are entitled to and outputs a signal NTSC on ch03 or 04.  Thought I could use this with the Linux MCE to get more channels.
Tried installing the Comcast DTA DCI105COM1 which has output in NTSC ch03 or 04.  Am able to get the video in Black and White only and no sound.
Tested the DTA output by plugging into a VCR -- output is fine ch03 color pix w sound -so its not the Comcast box.

Anyone get HD-5500 to tune NTSC signals?

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Installation issues / Firewall settings for Samba shares

« on: January 12, 2009, 02:21:50 pm »

Have Linuxmce connected to linksys router which also connects to windows boxes and to the cable modem/world

with linuxmce firewall enabled and port 22 forwarded in router can get to internet from linuxmce, can Putty to linuxmce from windows - cant get samba to see the windows boxes - get mshome and linuxmce shows up thats all

with linuxmce firewall disabled can see all windows boxes ok, share files ok - all nice.

Are there some firewall rules I need to put in to get this to work with the firewall still enabled.

I have read the wiki about preferred 2 nic card, linuxmce as dhcp etc -- understand what I am trying to do is not preferred setup but want to try and get this working to just share files.  Can anyone advise on needed firewall tweaks?

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Installation issues / Solved! Sound problems on DVD playback - TV sound ok, using SPDIF

« on: December 17, 2008, 02:21:54 pm »

Update later on 12/17/08
Searching this forum finally found the fix:

After getting the system up, to where the mythtv is playing via
digital audio, open the webadmin, go to the media directors page,
and on the media director you are using digital on,
from the drop down box under audio, select stereo not SPDIF
But leave the AC3 box checked.
At the bottom click update, and then do a router reload.
Now my videos and my mythtv play using the digital output.

Developers:  there seem to be some issues here -
After I initially loaded LinuxMCE there was no sound from initial wizard.
opening alsamixer turn up IEC958 volume - got sound out of the initial wizard.  However no sound for TV or Video. All the other tweaks mentioned in this post were needed to get TV and Video sound working. It would be really nice if it had worked out of the box. If anyone wants any further testing on my part to get any more info needed to get this pinned down and a fix scheduled let me know.

Original posting follows:

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Sound problems on DVD playback

Am using SPDIF output for sound - works fine for TV but get motorboating sound for DVD playback.

- I must have something wrong with Xine config? Not sure where that is controlled.

Can anyone suggest what I might try?

Bill

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System:
 Installed # LinuxMCE-DVD-i386-rc2.iso

Motherboard Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Green nVIDIA Socket Am2 ATX
Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 6000+ 3.0 GHz
Memory 8096MB Dual Channel 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory
Video Card -  GIGABYTE GV-NX85T256H GeForce 8500GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 
Hard Drive  - HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 (0A34915) 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
DVD - SAMSUNG SH203N SATA
HD-5500 Hi Definition Television PCI Card – pchdtv

Audio out - using SPDIF output from mobo to receiver

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Stuff I did to get the sound working for TV:

make sure receiver set to accept optical input

open alsamixer turn up IEC958 volume

MythTV Backend Setup -mythtv-setup.
Set up capture card - pick DVB DTV capture card(v3.x) NOT pcHDTV DTV capture card(w/V4L drivers).
When done see a capture card [DVB:0] listed.

in mythtv frontend
 KDE Desktop>Multimedia>Myth Frontend>Utilities Setup>General
enable
AC3 to SPDIF passthru
DTS to SPDIF passthru

added cx88-dvb and cx88-alsa to /etc/modules file

in /usr/share/alsa/cards/NFORCE.conf
changed line 197 from device 2 to device 1

above gets tv working with sound
dvd plays but no sound -- get motorboating noise - same as had for tv before last change to NFORCE.conf
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Installation issues / No Sound Problem - 7.10 SPDIF & HDA NVidia

« on: December 15, 2008, 04:17:23 pm »

Did a clean install of Linuxmce 7.10 from i386 DVD.
- heard no audio during wizard, and could not get any audio out S/PDIF cable.

Update 12/16/08: Chased software configuration problems for a week then finally discovered problem is me -- had a wrong setting on my receiver - it was not listening on the SPDIF port!   LinuxMCE working fine all the time.  I still some problems with DVD sound but will start a new thread for that.

So ignore the rest of the original post:

Has anyone been able to get audio out using S/PDIF optical cable?
In my case from Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe MOBO which has
8-channel High-Definition Audio provided by an ADI 1988B chip.
(additional system details below)

Yes, I did open the alsamixer and unmute the IEC958 controls and cranked
up volume on all controls.

Seems like the wizard failed to setup something needed in the audio configuration.

If anyone has audio working on the S/PDIF maby you can help me with whatever is missing in my config files.

Troubleshooting I have done so far includes using aplay to play a .wav file
for audio testing purposes:
aplay -D hw:0,1 should give me the S/PDIF outpot - nothing heard.
aplay -D hw:0,0 gives audio out on a test speaker I have plugged into the MOBO LFE output.

below are system details and results of:
aplay -l
aplay -L
cat /dev/sndstat   -- seems like sndstat has Analog Devices AD1988B only - no digital device!

I am Linux newbie and need some help to find out whats going on.
Anyone have any suggestions?

Developers: wonder if 8.10 would have this resolved? - or should I wait for beta?

Would like to get audio working on S/PDIF output.

Bill

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linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ aplay -L
front:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, AD198x Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ cat /dev/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.16 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux dcerouter 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
HDA NVidia at 0xfe020000 irq 19

Audio devices:
0: AD198x Analog (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: Analog Devices AD1988B

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System:
LinuxMCE - 0710 Beta 3 - LinuxMCE Install DVD for I386 - 0710 Beta 3 and installed from DVD

Motherboard Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Green nVIDIA Socket Am2 ATX
(8-channel High-Definition Audio is provided by an ADI 1988B chip;)
S/PDIF optical cable from MOBO S/PDIF out to Home Theater Receiver S/PDIF in.
small test speaker plugged into MOBO LFE out to help see whats going on

Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 6000+ 3.0 GHz
Memory 8096MB Dual Channel 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory
Video Card -  GIGABYTE GV-NX85T256H GeForce 8500GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 
Hard Drive  - HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 (0A34915) 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
DVD - SAMSUNG SH203N SATA
HD-5500 Hi Definition Television PCI Card - pchdtv

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Installation issues / No Sound on Video Playback - Sound OK on MythTV - using SPDIF/TosLink

« on: July 13, 2008, 12:51:14 am »

Hello Forum:

Can anyone help with sound problem on newly installed system.  I am using
SPDIF TosLink from PC to Pioneer Receiver - sound works fine for watching TV with MythTV but get no sound when playing DVD or playback of recorded TV.

Suggestions appreciated.
Bill


Tweaks used to get sound working for MythTV are posted at:
http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=5624.0

System:
 Installed # LinuxMCE-DVD-i386-rc2.iso

Motherboard Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Green nVIDIA Socket Am2 ATX
Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 6000+ 3.0 GHz
Memory 8096MB Dual Channel 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory
Video Card -  GIGABYTE GV-NX85T256H GeForce 8500GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16
Hard Drive  - HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 (0A34915) 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
DVD - SAMSUNG SH203N SATA
HD-5500 Hi Definition Television PCI Card – pchdtv

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Users / Partly Solved - No Sound pchdtv HD5500 SPDIF TosLink

« on: June 27, 2008, 04:08:53 pm »

Needed help to get sound working via SPDIF TosLink - solved see below

System:
 Installed # LinuxMCE-DVD-i386-rc2.iso

Motherboard Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Green nVIDIA Socket Am2 ATX
Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 6000+ 3.0 GHz
Memory 8096MB Dual Channel 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory
Video Card -  GIGABYTE GV-NX85T256H GeForce 8500GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 
Hard Drive  - HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 (0A34915) 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
DVD - SAMSUNG SH203N SATA
HD-5500 Hi Definition Television PCI Card – pchdtv

Having problems with sound – in AV Wizard got no sound on step 6, did get sound on Dolby and DTS - later found that in step 6 sound has to be cranked up to 100% to hear it.

following instructions on the wiki got tv working both cable analog and some digital channels:
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/PcHDTV_HD5500

but no sound for TV -
added cx88-dvb and cx88-alsa to /etc/modules file
(not sure if this was needed but saw some advice on this forum calling for it)

In MythTV Front End (KDE Desktop > Multimedia > Myth Frontend)
Utilities Setup > General
set Audio Output Device to ALSA:default
set Passtyhru output Device to ALSA:iec958:{AESO oxo2}
check enable AC3 to SPDIF passthru
check enable DTS to SPDIF passthru

In terminal window open alsamixer
unmute the iec958 device.

The above got sound working for MythTV - posting info here in case it is helpful to others.

However, I still get no sound from DVDs and recorded TV material. 
Anyone know what further tweaks are needed to get sound on LinuxMCE Video playback?
Bill

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Installation issues / Audio Out problems with 0710 Beta 3 - trying to get S/PDIF to work all the time.

« on: March 26, 2008, 05:45:46 pm »

Having some issues with audio - its partly working.  Any help in troubleshooting how to get all the audio to route out the S/PDIF(TOS) connector would be appreciated.

1. Some stuff works ok:  Sound works through S/PDIF(TOS) output from LinuxMCE into Home Theater Receiver only for Live TV, DVDs, and Videos in LinuxMCE memory (recorded TV shows and ripped DVDs)
2. Some stuff uses wrong output:  KDE Desktop Ararok player only gives sound through a test speaker I have plugged into line out jack on LinuxMCE Mobo
3. Some stuff dosen't work at all:  Using Orbiter to play Linux MCE Audio results in no sound out.

I wonder if this can be related to an anomoly I noticed in the LinuxMCE setup wizard (the initial one with the green background)?:
Steps of the Wizard for audio:
AV Audio Connector - I select S/PDIF(TOS)
AV Audio Volume - I hear no sound. (seems odd to me that there was no sound)
AV Dolby Test - I hear the music
AV DTS Test - I hear no sound.

To get sound working for TV capture card - had to add cx88-dvb and cx88-alsa to /etc/modules
- after reboot used KDE desktop > MythTV Backend Setup  to set capture card to DVB0 with audio /dev/dsp1

I would like to be able to have all audio route out the S/PDIF connector.
Must be missing some settings or configurations I guess.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Bill
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System:
LinuxMCE - 0710 Beta 3 - LinuxMCE Install DVD for I386 - 0710 Beta 3 and installed from DVD

Motherboard Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Green nVIDIA Socket Am2 ATX
(8-channel High-Definition Audio is provided by an ADI 1988B chip;)
S/PDIF optical cable from MOBO S/PDIF out to Home Theater Receiver S/PDIF in.
small test speaker plugged into MOBO line out to help see whats going on

Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 6000+ 3.0 GHz
Memory 8096MB Dual Channel 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory
Video Card -  GIGABYTE GV-NX85T256H GeForce 8500GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 
Hard Drive  - HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 (0A34915) 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
DVD - SAMSUNG SH203N SATA
HD-5500 Hi Definition Television PCI Card - pchdtv

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Installation issues / Remote Login from Windows to LinuxMCE 0710 Beta 3

« on: March 24, 2008, 03:32:26 pm »

Want to use windows box (ME) to log on the LinuxMCE box to do problem resolution, tweaking from my desk.  LinuxMCE can get to windows shares, but windows cant seem to get to LinuxMCE.

Have Linksys router forwarding ports 22, 5900 - LinuxMCE box can see windows boxes, retrive files, can ping the windows boxes from LinuxMCE using IP obtained from router DHCP table. 

Have Putty on windows - try to connect to LinuxMCE but get timeout, try to ping LinuxMCE from windows using IP obtained from router DHCP table - no good. Windows network neighborhood shows Linuxmce and Mshome (which has all windows boxes in it) - cliking on Linuxmce gives message that it is inaccessable.

Anyone have suggestion on troubleshooting this?  Remote access into LinuxMCE sure would help with resolving a number of outstanding issues I am having with a fairly new LinuxMCE installation.

-Bill
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System:
LinuxMCE - 0710 Beta 3

Motherboard Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Green nVIDIA Socket Am2 ATX
Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 6000+ 3.0 GHz
Memory 8096MB Dual Channel 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory
Video Card -  GIGABYTE GV-NX85T256H GeForce 8500GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 
Hard Drive  - HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 (0A34915) 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
DVD - SAMSUNG SH203N SATA
HD-5500 Hi Definition Television PCI Card - pchdtv

Linksys Router WRT54GS

Windows ME
Putty

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Installation issues / Anybody get DVD install to work for 7.10 beta 3?

« on: February 09, 2008, 05:11:17 am »

Has anyone been able to get this install DVD to work?:
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3980070 - LinuxMCE Install DVD for AMD64 - 0710 Beta 3

Will not boot for me.  I have ubuntu 7.10 running on:
Motherboard Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Green nVIDIA Socket Am2 ATX
Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 6000+ 3.0 GHz
Memory 8096MB Dual Channel 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory
Video Card -  GIGABYTE GV-NX85T256H GeForce 8500GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 
Hard Drive  - HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 (0A34915) 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
DVD - SAMSUNG SH203N SATA


Any info appreciated.

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