Trouble with the Ceton InfiniTV 4 USB (TL__)

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Trouble with the Ceton InfiniTV 4 USB (TL__)

Post by 9072997 »

Hello,

I have a Ceton InfiniTV 4 USB. I am also using a SDV adapter. I have
installed the userspace driver as well as the SDV driver from Ceton. I
can view TV by tuneing using the web interface, enabling RTP streaming
via the web interface, and viewing the stream with VLC (I have to set
a program number in vlc). Below is some information from the log:
Sep 20 01:42:48 Thrive-AV mythbackend: mythbackend[7594]: I
ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1698 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer:
MainServer::ANN Playback
Sep 20 01:42:48 Thrive-AV mythbackend: mythbackend[7594]: I
ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1703 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer:
adding: Thrive-AV(1ffb270) as a client (events: 0)
Sep 20 01:42:48 Thrive-AV mythbackend: mythbackend[7594]: I TVRecEvent
tv_rec.cpp:1073 (HandleStateChange) TVRec[1]: Changing from None to
WatchingLiveTV
Sep 20 01:42:48 Thrive-AV mythbackend: mythbackend[7594]: I TVRecEvent
tv_rec.cpp:3563 (TuningCheckForHWChange) TVRec[1]: HW Tuner: 1->1
Sep 20 01:42:48 Thrive-AV mythbackend: mythbackend[7594]: I TVRecEvent
tv_rec.cpp:3685 (TuningFrequency) TVRec[1]: TuningFrequency
Sep 20 01:42:49 Thrive-AV mythbackend: mythbackend[7594]: N
CoreContext autoexpire.cpp:251 (CalcParams) AutoExpire: CalcParams():
Max required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 14 min
Sep 20 01:42:49 Thrive-AV mythbackend: mythbackend[7594]: N TVRecEvent
recordinginfo.cpp:687 (ApplyRecordRecGroupChange)
ApplyRecordRecGroupChange: LiveTV to LiveTV (2)
Sep 20 01:42:49 Thrive-AV mythbackend: mythbackend[7594]: I
CetonStreamHandler recorders/iptvstreamhandler.cpp:125 (run)
IPTVSH(::-1): run()
Sep 20 01:42:50 Thrive-AV mythbackend: mythbackend[7594]: I
CetonStreamHandler recorders/cetonrtsp.cpp:413 (Setup) CetonRTSP:
Transport: RTP/AVP;unicast;client_port=54334-54335
Sep 20 01:42:53 Thrive-AV mythbackend: mythbackend[7594]: W TVRecEvent
tv_rec.cpp:4004 (TuningSignalCheck) TVRec[1]: TuningSignalCheck:
taking more than 3000 ms to get a lock. marking this recording as
'Failing'.
Sep 20 01:42:53 Thrive-AV mythbackend: mythbackend[7594]: W TVRecEvent
tv_rec.cpp:4006 (TuningSignalCheck) TVRec[1]: See 'Tuning timeout' in
mythtv-setup for this input
MythTV gives TL__ Partial Lock when I attempt to watch tv (along with
a black screen). Any ideas would be much appreciated.
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Re: Trouble with the Ceton InfiniTV 4 USB (TL__)

Post by pgbennett »

I have a Ceton Infinitv 6 ETH. After upgrading to 0.28 I got the tuner timeout intermittently. I fixed it by changing the timeout from 3000 to 5000 ms. Unfortunately that setting in not available in the setup screens for CETON, so I had to use SQL to set it. The following will increase the timeout from 3000 to 5000.

update capturecard set channel_timeout = 5000 where cardtype = 'CETON';
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Re: Trouble with the Ceton InfiniTV 4 USB (TL__)

Post by 9072997 »

unfortunately that had no effect. I would assume that even if getting a channel lock was taking a long time, It would just warn me and then eventually start watching tv when I select "live tv" in mythfrontend.

I am attempting to work around this issue by writing an external tuner (black box) script which uses ceton's python client to get data from the device and send a single program via RTP, then uses mplayer to capture this stream and send it via stdout. So far I haven't got that working, but would settle for either solution.
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