Linux - HOW-TO watch Live TV in XBMC for Linux with Tvheadend, the easy way!

Linux HOW-TO watch Live TV in XBMC for Linux with Tvheadend, the easy way! - Printable Version

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- moontan77 - 2011-12-12

you need tv tuners for your computer so appletv will only work as a client i.e. you will need a pc with tv tuner which streams the tv channels to the appletv.

- john470fc - 2011-12-13

Have just been through the procedure at the top of this thread, and all seems to work okay (so thanks for that) except I think there may be a problem with my "Hauppauge WinTV HVR 1300". I can log into the TVheadEnd GUI and detect multiplexes fine (Sutton Coldfield, UK), but no services are found :-( I didn't enter anything for "NIT-o Network ID", but searching the web, I think it's okay to leave this as default ("0"). Looking through the kernel log I see the following message repeated;

cx8802_start_dma() Failed. Unsupported value in .mpeg (0x00000003)

I understand that this may be a common symptom of this type of problem with this particular hardware. But I can find no solution. Any ideas? or is it time to get a more up-to-date piece of hardware?

Thanks in advance.

- phofman - 2011-12-13

john470fc Wrote:cx8802_start_dma() Failed. Unsupported value in .mpeg (0x00000003)

This thread discusses required firmware - do you have it loaded? Plus someone mentions the bug is related to decoding MPEG by hardware of the card, can you perhaps reconfigure your setup to decode in CPU/GPU?

- walinsky - 2011-12-13

One oneric I get the following warnings after apt-get update

Quote:W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/lars-opdenkamp/pvr-depends/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/lars-opdenkamp/pvr-depends/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

Also tvheadend is not available for oneiric; I had to install it manually (took the deb file from natty http://packages.pulse-eight.net/ubuntu/pool/stable/dists/natty/ )

- opdenkamp - 2011-12-13

stupid webserver again... I'll fix it when I get home.

- opdenkamp - 2011-12-13

ah no, it's not the webserver. I messed something up in the directory structs apparently.

- opdenkamp - 2011-12-13

and that's not it either. the directory structs look alright, and I can install the packages just fine from here.

so, the entry in your /etc/apt/sources.list is wrong. it should be

Code:
deb http://packages.pulse-eight.net/ubuntu oneiric stable

- Bitcrusher - 2011-12-13

After I updated to build 57 today the old "No PVR add-on enabled" message returned at startup and takes me to the pvr add-ons where tvheadend is already enabled. I Had this problem before only this time Live TV won't work at all. TVheadend is running and correctly configured, because it worked fine on build 55 only minutes before.

- opdenkamp - 2011-12-13

report this on github please, and attach a full debug log.

- walinsky - 2011-12-13

@dushmaniac
my /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ now sports a file 'lars-opdenkamp-pvr-depends-oneiric.list'

Quote:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lars-opdenkamp/pvr-depends/ubuntu oneiric main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/lars-opdenkamp/pvr-depends/ubuntu oneiric main

of which I'm pretty sure I didn't put there by hand.

Will you put up tvheadend in the oneiric branch?
Oh - and by the way - I had to manually install uxlaunch.

@Bitcrusher
my pvr plugin seemed fooked as well - a restart helped me a great deal

- opdenkamp - 2011-12-13

pvr-depends is ok, that's added by the script (although most of the dependencies should be on the new location now too).

tvheadend failed to build on oneiric last time I checked (something with openssl). if it's been fixed in upstream, you'll have it before the end of the week. if not, then it depends on whether it's an easy fix or not Smile

- walinsky - 2011-12-13

AH! but pvr-depends doesn't sport oneiric!

- opdenkamp - 2011-12-13

right. oneiric didn't exist back then Smile

I'll check whether everything is on the new location now, and will remove the entry from the script. thanks.

- bas.t - 2011-12-14

@dushmaniac:

If I want to do

Code:
apt-get build-dep xbmc

I still have to do fist:

Code:
add-apt-repository ppa:lars-opdenkamp/xbmc-pvr

which by the way does not work for oneiric.

Are you planning on moving this to your new repos too?

Cheers

- opdenkamp - 2011-12-14

yes