tvheadend on Cine S2 v6.5 DVBS2 and DuoFlex S2 DVB-CT

Dolphs Lundgren

Hi, recently I compiled tvheadend on Debian Squueze - https://tvheadend.org/d/1414-libav-on-debian-squeeze - running vanilla longterm kernel 3.10.16.

Yet got the GUI up and running, however tvh is unable to detect my " Cine S2 Version 6.5 and DuoFlex S2 " combination while kernel driver DDBbridge is loaded:

01:00.0 Multimedia controller: Digital Devices GmbH Octopus DVB Adapter
Subsystem: Digital Devices GmbH Cine S2 V6.5 DVB adapter
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f7c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [70] MSI: Enable- Count=1/2 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [90] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0000 Rev=0 Len=00c <?>

Kernel driver in use: DDBridge

Followed these - http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR/Backend/Tvheadend - instructions, but my DVBS2/C combination is not detected, so I guess some more compiling is needed to get this to work.

Current version of tvheadend is: "HTS Tvheadend version 3.5.244~gf5c5ffd-dirty "

Also find below parts in kernel that are enabled.

Any enthousiastics that like to guide me to the next level? TiA!

Device Drivers> Multimedia support

Multimedia core support
[*] Cameras/video grabbers support
[*] Analog TV support
[*] Digital TV support
[ ] AM/FM radio receivers/transmitters support
[ ] Remote Controller support
[*] Media Controller API
[*] V4L2 sub-device userspace API
[ ] Enable advanced debug functionality on V4L2 drivers
[ ] Enable old-style fixed minor ranges on drivers/video devices
< > V4L2 int device (DEPRECATED)
[*] DVB Network Support
(8) maximum number of DVB/ATSC adapters

[*] Dynamic DVB minor allocation

Media drivers
[ ] Media USB Adapters --->
[*] Media PCI Adapters ---><M> Digital Devices bridge support
[*] V4L platform devices --->
[*] Memory-to-memory multimedia devices --->

[ ] Media test drivers --->

Supported MMC/SDIO adapters

< > Cypress firmware helper routines

Media ancillary drivers (tuners, sensors, i2c, frontends)
[*] Autoselect ancillary drivers (tuners, sensors, i2c, frontends)

Dolphs Lundgren

OK " ./configure --enable-bundle --enable-dvbcsa " enabled at least a setting I overlooked earlier.

Indeed had to compile an additonal package from videolan:

cd /tmp
svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/libdvbcsa/trunk libdvbcsa
cd libdvbsca
./bootstrap
./configure --enable-sse2 --prefix=/usr

make && make install

However still no DVB adapter that can be selected from the GUI so I will need to dig in to - http://support.digital-devices.de/knowledgebase.php?article=124 -

Dolphs Lundgren

looks like recompiling the dvb V4L-drivers as indicated at support degital devices did improve things a lot.
I have a DDBridge module loaded as well " nGene PCIE bridge driver ".
When I start up tvheadend it allows to choose from four tuners, to be precise: " STV090x Multistandard " as well " STV0367 DVB-C DVB-T ".
Now last tasks is to make the nGene module to load by default so no manual " modprobe " is required as well permissions on " /dev/dvb "

Crazy Fin

Dolphs Lundgren wrote:
> looks like recompiling the dvb V4L-drivers as indicated at support degital devices did improve things a lot.
> When I start up tvheadend it allows to choose from four tuners, to be precise: " STV090x Multistandard " as well " STV0367 DVB-C DVB-T ".

> Now last tasks is to make the nGene module to load by default so no manual " modprobe " is required as well permissions on " /dev/dvb "

Hi Dolphs,

I had the same issue as you with no "STV090x Multistandard" showing up in the drop-down list where one selects the tunercard in TVHeadend configuration page.

However, at that time I found the following driver that was VERY easy to install:

"media-build-experimental-dkms - 0~20130831.210530-1yavdr1~precise" that can be find at "https://launchpad.net/~yavdr/+archive/main/+packages

When I was using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I just did

"sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yavdr/main" followed by

"sudo apt-get install media-build-experimental-dkms"

the compiling during the step above took quite long time though (10-15 minutes).

After that I did a reboot and then.... Voila! The card was available in TVHeadend now! :-)

Also after the reboot I was able to see that the card was registered by the kernel using the command

"dmesg | grep DDBridge"

Now the dmesg output shows that the kernel registers the DVB-adapter (4 adapters since it is a quad tuner card):

DVB: registering new adapter (DDBridge)
DVB: registering new adapter (DDBridge)
DVB: registering new adapter (DDBridge)
DVB: registering new adapter (DDBridge)
DDBridge 0000:02:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (STV090x Multistandard)
DDBridge 0000:02:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (STV090x Multistandard)
DDBridge 0000:02:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 2 frontend 0 (STV090x Multistandard)

DDBridge 0000:02:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 3 frontend 0 (STV090x Multistandard)

or something similar. I am writing this out of my memory since I am at work and have no access to my computer from here.

Anway, thanks for your tip on the driver you found. I had actually tried that driver (but an older version) via the forum thread found at

http://www.vdr-portal.de/board18-vdr-hardware/board102-dvb-karten/113367-aktuelle-treiber-f%C3%BCr-octopus-ddbridge-cines2-ngene-ddbridge-duoflex-s2-duoflex-ct-cinect-sowie-tt-s2-6400-teil-2/?s=1ddf0a345a6448543aa2597ef982c49507e6cbff

Now today I see that there is a new version of the driver released today, Oct 25th 2013:

http://linuxtv.org/hg/~endriss/media_build_experimental2/media_build_experimental/media_build_experimental/

Really cool! I think I´ll try that one out too and see if I see any performance differencies between the driver from yaVDR versus the one from Oliver Endriss.

Just one final note:

When I moved to the driver from the yaVDR-team I also have gone up to Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy). Unfortunately there are no packages from yaVDR for Saucy but you just need to change the line in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/<don't remember the file name now...>.list (file name is something like yavdrxxxx)

"deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/yavdr/main/ubuntu precise main"

"deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/yavdr/main/ubuntu saucy main"

and it should work fine to install the driver.