PiBox

Just discovered that usbhandler.sh doesn't support multiple drivers. See RM #324

I've loaded the drivers in order and run w_scan but it isn't generating a channels.conf for me. I don't see any obvious problems though having the 950Q plugged into a USB hub may not be providing enough power. Still investigating.

I've also found a reasonable hack to usbhandler.sh to load drivers that way I want. Interestingly, the WinTV drivers (xc5000, au0828+friends) are automatically loaded by the kernel or possibly mdev. I don't want them to be loaded because their loading in the wrong order. So I may need an init script of some kind that handles unloading them.

1. Recipe to Watch TV - uses gnutv and a fifo
2. TVHeadend - streams TV over network though seems to use internal web interface with javascript to control it.

Note that gnutv is already in the target rootfs build but tvheadend is not (though it will be easy to add). I kind of like the gnutv option because it seems simple to integrate with a custom UI (like videofe) but I won't know that till I manually try both options.

First try of gnutv->fifo->omxplayer failed. Not sure why. I may need to run omxplayer in an xterm again.

1. xine project - the core libraries
2. oxine - an OSD styled front end to xine suited to set top boxes.
   This may work though unless it uses hardware acceleration it may not playback very well. Just have to try it and see what happens.

• US ATSC TV Partial Success in the forumss
• Raspbmc DVR tutorial in forums
• omxplayer +hauppauge search on forums
• Overclocking on eLinux.org, which was referenced in the second link but which I think will only help with playback and probably not with signal reception.

I was finally able to order a license and it was sent to me (it's just a text key you put in config.txt). Once I added that I tried playback again. This worked better - I got a picture this time. But then the system locked up.

I'm gonna put this on hold for a bit. I think the next thing to try might be to rev the kernel. But that might break other things (the wifi dongles, most likely). The current master on github is 3.12.y and there is a 3.14.y available. There is discussion on moving the the master to 3.14 or later.

I also need to order MPEG-2 licenses for my other boards, specifically the B+ model to see if that performs any better than the B models I've been testing on.

Just tried 3.14.27 (lastest in 3.14 series) and it seems to work fine with current apps and system configuration. I have network connectivity, videofe plays (audio and video) and piclock works. However, the boot was slightly different for some reason. psplash didn't finish and I got the X bg (the miot for media server) image which I had not been getting previously. This build does not have the fbtft drivers installed however.

So now I can try scanning for channels and see if that works any better.

Ran a test of video playback. I got playback for a few seconds with audio but then the whole system locked up.

I'm going to move tv playback out to 0.11 so it doesn't block 0.10's release and then come back to it later.