Skystar2 - BDA Drivers Available

[timh]

Just wondering if any Skystar2 owners have tried the beta BDA drivers that Technisat have available (download link is http://www.technisat.com/?site=service/d...uktID=1281

I guess that they should work with GBPVR (with the appropriate edit to BDA.ini), would be interested to know if anyone's using them.
Regards,
Tim

[newyankee]

Just I guess that they should work with GBPVR (with the appropriate edit to BDA.ini), would be interested to know if anyone's using them.

Indeed, they do work. These are my BDA.ini edits:

[TechniSat SkyStar2 PCI (BDA)]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-S
SUPPORTS_BDA_DISEQC=3
FILTER_TUNER=TechniSat BDA Digital Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=TechniSat BDA Digital Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

Card is recognized, scanning and EPG work. Diseqc does not work with GBPVR.

The other drawback is that the BDA driver does not work properly with DVBViewer. In order to use the Skystar with either GBPVR or DVBViewer you will have to install the respective driver each time. Hopefully, sub will be able to work on Diseqc support next year, so I can use GBPVR exclusively.

Guido

[sub]

Cheers, I'll include the definition in the master file.

I've emailed TechniSat to ask about their private diseqc interface, so hopefully they'll come back with some technical info to enable me to add diseqc control for their devices. I dont know if they'll provide one or not, but I also asked for sample device.

[johnnylarne]

they don't want to work for me ...

I get the following mysterious error:
anybody know what can cause that ?? the card appears to scan, but never finds any channels and I don't believe that it does in fact scan

I have had it working find with the normal drivers and progDVB, also I have had GBPVr working with a k-world twinhan dvbt card, so I have some idea how to get it all going!!

INFO Log started
00:04:08.953 VERBOSE getSetting(OSDTransparency)
00:04:53.531 INFO BDARecorder:::StartRecording(TechniSat SkyStar2 PCI (BDA), 1, c:\test.mpg, T:10714,H,22000,56)
00:04:53.546 INFO Initializing DVB-S tuning request
00:04:53.687 VERBOSE SubmitTuningRequest(T:10714,H,22000,56)
00:04:53.687 VERBOSE Submitting new Tuning Request
00:04:53.687 ERROR pTuner->get_TuneRequest() failed: 80004002
00:04:53.703 VERBOSE New tuning request submitted...
00:04:53.703 VERBOSE ServiceID: -1, PMT PID: -1, VPID: -1, APID: -1
00:04:53.703 VERBOSE SubmitTuningRequest() complete
00:04:53.703 VERBOSE ServiceID: -1, PMT PID: -1, VPID: -1, APID: -1
00:04:53.703 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAMultiplexer)
00:04:53.703 VERBOSE Preferred BDA Multiplexer: Microsoft DVR-MS
00:04:53.796 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAAutoDetectTuner)
00:04:53.796 VERBOSE About to auto detect correct tuner filter
00:04:53.796 VERBOSE Looking for associated filter
00:04:53.796 VERBOSE - TechniSat BDA Digital Capture
00:04:53.796 VERBOSE Successfully auto detected tuner filter: TechniSat BDA Digital Capture
00:04:53.812 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'MPEG2 Transport' to 'MPEG-2 Stream'
00:04:53.812 VERBOSE Demux filter has the following default output pins:
00:04:53.812 VERBOSE - 1: has media type: {455F176C-4B06-47CE-9AEF-8CAEF73DF7B5} {E9DD31A3-221D-4ADB-8532-9AF309C1A408}
00:04:53.812 VERBOSE - 2: has media type: {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71} {E06D8026-DB46-11CF-B4D1-00805F6CBBEA} (VIDEO)
00:04:53.812 VERBOSE - 3: has media type: {73647561-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71} {E06D802B-DB46-11CF-B4D1-00805F6CBBEA} (AUDIO)
00:04:53.812 VERBOSE - 4: has media type: {455F176C-4B06-47CE-9AEF-8CAEF73DF7B5} {E436EB8E-524F-11CE-9F53-0020AF0BA770}
00:04:53.812 VERBOSE - 5: has media type: {455F176C-4B06-47CE-9AEF-8CAEF73DF7B5} {C892E55B-252D-42B5-A316-D997E7A5D995}
00:04:53.812 VERBOSE About to try to add VMR9 preview window
00:04:53.921 VERBOSE Adding VMR9 preview window
00:04:53.921 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAUsePsiParser)
00:04:53.921 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAEnableDvbSubtitles)
00:04:53.921 VERBOSE getSetting(EPGProcessingMode)
00:04:53.937 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAAutoMapPids)
00:04:53.937 VERBOSE previewMode = false
00:04:53.937 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAAlwaysAddTIFAndSections)
00:04:53.937 VERBOSE Adding MPEG-2 Sections and Tables filter
00:04:53.953 VERBOSE Adding BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter filter
00:04:53.984 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredDecoder)
00:04:53.984 VERBOSE About to render demux pins...
00:04:53.984 VERBOSE rendering pin: 1
00:04:54.015 VERBOSE rendering pin: 2
00:04:54.343 VERBOSE rendering pin: 3
00:04:54.531 VERBOSE rendering pin: 4
00:04:54.562 VERBOSE About to render GB-PVR Flow Status pin
00:04:54.562 VERBOSE About to setup IVideoWindow
00:04:54.593 INFO Starting graph...
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE locked=0 present=0 strength=65500 quality=20
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE - Default DirectSound Device
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE - BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE - MPEG-2 Sections and Tables
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE - GB-PVR PSI Parser
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE - VMR9
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE - Elecard Layer II Audio Decoder
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE - Elecard MPEG-2 Video Decoder
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE - MPEG-2 Demultiplexer
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE - TechniSat BDA Digital Capture
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE - TechniSat BDA Digital Tuner
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE - Microsoft DVBS Network Provider
00:04:59.421 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE Demux filter has the following default output pins:
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE - 1: has media type: {455F176C-4B06-47CE-9AEF-8CAEF73DF7B5} {E9DD31A3-221D-4ADB-8532-9AF309C1A408}
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE PID: 0 (0)
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE PID: 16 (10)
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE PID: 17 (11)
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE PID: 18 (12)
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE PID: 19 (13)
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE PID: 20 (14)
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE - 2: has media type: {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71} {E06D8026-DB46-11CF-B4D1-00805F6CBBEA} (VIDEO)
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE - 3: has media type: {73647561-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71} {E06D802B-DB46-11CF-B4D1-00805F6CBBEA} (AUDIO)
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE - 4: has media type: {455F176C-4B06-47CE-9AEF-8CAEF73DF7B5} {E436EB8E-524F-11CE-9F53-0020AF0BA770}
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE - 5: has media type: {455F176C-4B06-47CE-9AEF-8CAEF73DF7B5} {C892E55B-252D-42B5-A316-D997E7A5D995}
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE - PSI: has media type: {455F176C-4B06-47CE-9AEF-8CAEF73DF7B5} {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE PID: 0 (0)
00:04:59.531 VERBOSE PID: 16 (10)
00:04:59.546 VERBOSE PID: 17 (11)
00:04:59.546 VERBOSE PID: 18 (12)
00:04:59.546 VERBOSE PID: 8191 (1FFF)
00:04:59.546 VERBOSE BDARecorder::StartRecording() finished
00:04:59.562 VERBOSE BDARecorder::ScanTransponder(T:10714,H,22000,56)
00:04:59.562 VERBOSE SubmitTuningRequest(T:10714,H,22000,56)
00:04:59.562 VERBOSE Submitting new Tuning Request
00:04:59.562 VERBOSE Already on requested freq, not retuning...
00:04:59.562 VERBOSE ServiceID: -1, PMT PID: -1, VPID: -1, APID: -1
00:04:59.562 VERBOSE SubmitTuningRequest() complete
00:04:59.562 VERBOSE ScanTransponder@2
00:04:59.656 VERBOSE ScanTransponder@2
00:04:59.656 VERBOSE ScanTransponder@3
00:05:03.875 VERBOSE ScanTransponder@4
00:05:03.875 VERBOSE ScanTransponder@5

[sub]

The snippet of log above looks fine, but the device fails to lock a signal. This log doesnt show a scan, but just an attempt to lock one specific frequency. You may need to hit the rescan button to generate a log that shows a full scan.

[johnnylarne]

thanks for speedy response sub - half past midnight here in N.Ireland!

if I let config run on, it just goes through 80 frequency increments but never finds anything -- previously I had the ss plugin working fine with manual channel definitions, but decided to change to the BDA drivers.

how can I bypass the scan and manually enter the channels/frequencies in the gbpvr db -essentially the same as the ssplugin.txt

John

[sub]

if I let config run on, it just goes through 80 frequency increments but never finds anything -- previously I had the ss plugin working fine with manual channel definitions, but decided to change to the BDA drivers.

If no channels are found, then I'm guessing they've got buggy BDA drivers.

You're not trying to use a diseqc switch? Their BDA drivers dont support diseqc.

how can I bypass the scan and manually enter the channels/frequencies in the gbpvr db -essentially the same as the ssplugin.txt

Essentially you cant. (well, you can if you know what you're doing, but I dont have the hour so required to type out instructions, and I dont really like the idea of people entering stuff directly into the database)

[happyhammer]

excuse my ignorance, but what does having a skystar 2 card working with the BDA driver give me that i don't get with the existing SS2recorder plugin?

[kappa__2]

Hey johnnylarne...

Did you set the "DVB-S LNB Setup"?

It should be: (for most sats)

LNB LOF1 (MHZ) = 9750
LNB switch (MHZ) = 11700
LNB LOF1 (MHZ) = 10600

It works with those settings... At least for me.

[happyhammer]

excuse my ignorance, but what does having a skystar 2 card working with the BDA driver give me that i don't get with the existing SS2recorder plugin?

still unclear what the advantage of the BDA driver would be?