Problems with webcamd and RTL2832U

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 04/28/16 09:12, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 10:59:01 +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> On 04/27/16 10:01, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>> I'm trying to set up MythTV on a 10.2-STABLE system using an RTL2832U
>>> class tuner and webcamd webcamd-4.2.0.9.  The tuner probes as:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Any ideas how to corner the problem?
>>
>> 1) Check that you have only one instance of webcamd running.
>
> Yes, of course.  I also checked that I did have one instance of
> webcamd running.  In some cases it writes an error message to
> /dev/null and then exits with status 0, and there's no way to know it
> has exited.  I'll send private mail with patches.
>
>> 2) Test device with w_scan utility (from ports) first.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  That works, so I suppose it's a MythTV
> problem.
>
>> 3) MythTV: ensure you configure correctly DVB-T / S / S2 and so on.
>
> Done.  But at least I'm closing in.
>
> You didn't address:
>
>>> I don't see any mention of rtl28xxu in current documentation, and
>>> no way to specify a driver in the man page.  Can I assume that this
>>> is an undocumented change?

Hi,

rtl28xxu works. I have one myself, tested with VDR.

Maybe you need to disable the DISEQ feature.

--HPS