New Fedora 7 kaffeine rpm built without DVB support ?!

m0dY · #1 7th July 2007, 04:35 AM

Hello,

Looks like the new kaffeine rpm's for the Fedora 7 release is built without DVB support, anybody having same issue before reporting.

**Finalzone** · #2 7th July 2007, 08:27 AM

You should get livna repository to add more functionality for kaffeine. The version you installed does not include any proprietary codecs.

m0dY · #3 8th July 2007, 03:22 AM

Well,

I have the livna repo enabled but i don't think livna include any kaffeine pkgs.

As you can see here http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/7/i386/

anonymouse · #4 18th July 2007, 03:13 PM

There seems to be a bug in the current Fedora 7 kernel which prevents some DVB cards working. My Conexant-based PCI card does not work with F7, but does with FC6 (apart from one recent kernel). However, my Freecom DVB-T stick does work. Kaffeine only shows the DVB option if a DVB card is present and working - it does work OK for me in F7.

welshmike · #5 19th July 2007, 11:08 AM

Problem now resolved with thanks to anonymouse. Please see my post at 04:10 PM PDT today.

Quote:

Originally Posted by anonymouse

There seems to be a bug in the current Fedora 7 kernel which prevents some DVB cards working. My Conexant-based PCI card does not work with F7, but does with FC6 (apart from one recent kernel). However, my Freecom DVB-T stick does work. Kaffeine only shows the DVB option if a DVB card is present and working - it does work OK for me in F7.

I'm a newbie to GNU/Linux and am detemined to escape from the future of Microsoft Windows. So I'm gradually making sure that everything I have been able to do on XP I can do on Fedora Core before I dump Redmond forever.
Progress thus far has been quite good with FC 6 despite this old dog having to lean new tricks!
My progress in getting to receive Freeview TV with my Freecom DVB-T USB stick is currently stuck.
Thus far:
1 Downloaded firmware dvb-usb-wt220u-02.fw from http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/
2. yum install kaffeine (which also installed xine)

Kaffeine recognises the USB stick and I have tuned into the uk-rowridge channels.
When I attempt to view a channel I get:
> 07:02:31 PM: xine: couldn't find demux for >/root/.kaxtv1.ts<
> 07:02:31 PM: xine: found input plugin : file input plugin
> 07:02:26 PM: video_decoder: no plugin available to handle 'XviD'
> 07:02:26 PM: xine: found demuxer plugin: AVI/RIFF demux plugin
> 07:02:26 PM: xine: found input plugin : file input plugin
> 07:02:10 PM: xine: couldn't find demux for >/root/.kaxtv.ts<
> 07:02:10 PM: xine: found input plugin : file input plugin
> 07:02:10 PM: video_decoder: no plugin available to handle 'XviD'
> 07:02:10 PM: xine: found demuxer plugin: AVI/RIFF demux plugin
> 07:02:10 PM: xine: found input plugin : file input plugin"

I've seen several postings on the web from people who have this unresolved problem.

Please please is there someone who can tell me how to overcome this problem? ... in simple terms please.

Many thanks in advance.

Welshmike

anonymouse · #6 19th July 2007, 12:58 PM

It looks like the DVB-T stick is installed correctly, otherwise kaffeine wouldn't show you any DVB options. I think the problem is that you don't have the right audio and video decoders installed. These are covered by various patents and so are not included in the Fedora distribution.

However - this is easily fixed. Go to http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/ and get the Fedora Core 6 repository RPM via the link on the front page. Then, as root, run:

Code:

rpm -Uvh <name of file.rpm>

...or you can probably just double click on the file if you don't fancy the command line stuff. :-) This enables yum to see a repository called "Livna" that contains various packages not included in the main Fedora distribution for legal reasons.

Now you should be able to run:

Code:

yum install xine-lib-extras-nonfree

which will install the necessary audio and video decoders and demuxs, and you should be able to use kaffeine to watch DVB-T channels!

welshmike · #7 19th July 2007, 01:54 PM

Thanks anonymouse

I had already obtained the FC 6 repository RPM.

What is the name-of-file in rpm -Uvh <name-of-file.rpm> please?

I ran
yum install xine-lib-extras-nonfree
and got:
No Match for argument xine-lib-extras-nonfree
Nothing to do

Mike

anonymouse · #8 19th July 2007, 02:33 PM

<name of file.rpm> is "livna-release-6.rpm" - you can get it here...

http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm

Then run:

Code:

rpm -Uvh livna-release-6.rpm

and finally:

Code:

yum install xine-lib-extras-nonfree

... which should now work.

Alternatively, to do it all in one go:

Code:

wget http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh livna-release-6.rpm
yum install xine-lib-extras-nonfree

welshmike · #9 19th July 2007, 04:10 PM

Many thanks anonymouse. All in one go did it.

I'm now viewing Freeview successfully using Kaffeine.

One more step away from the grip of Redmond.

anonymouse · #10 19th July 2007, 05:20 PM

Great! Have fun. :-)