[mythtv-users] DVB card for Australia (melbourne)

[Mark Anderson]

> David Whyte wrote:
>
>>I use 2 Avermedia 771's in my box with no problems.  I can't tune SBS,
>>but I don't get SBS anywhere in the house even on conventional TV's.
>>
> I wish I could figure out how to get it installed and working properly. 
> It's in my secondary frontend/backend at the moment (operating as a 
> backend fine, though the card won't tune so the backend is left down to 
> ensure that it's not used) happily presenting /dev/dvb/adapter0 entries, 
> showing the following in "dmesg" output...
>
> Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
> bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
> bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
> PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
> bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:01:05.0, irq: 10, latency: 132, mmio: 
> 0xfe000000
> bttv0: detected: AverMedia AverTV DVB-T [card=124], PCI subsystem ID is 
> 1461:076
> 1
> bttv0: using: AverMedia AverTV DVB-T 761 [card=124,autodetected]
> bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=009d00cd [init]
> bttv0: using tuner=-1
> bttv0: registered device video0
> bttv0: registered device vbi0
> bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
> bttv0: add subdevice "remote0"
> bttv0: add subdevice "dvb0"
> tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
> tvaudio: known chips: 
> tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea642
> 0,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951),ta8874z
> ir-kbd-gpio: bttv IR (card=124) detected at pci-0000:01:05.0/ir0
>
> ... but when I go to tune to it, all I get is
>
> mythfe2 scan # ./scan dvb-t/au-vic-Selby
> scanning dvb-t/au-vic-Selby
> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
> initial transponder 662500000 1 3 9 3 1 1 0
> initial transponder 620500000 1 2 9 3 1 2 0
> initial transponder 641500000 1 3 9 3 1 1 0
> initial transponder 711500000 1 3 9 3 1 1 0
> initial transponder 683500000 1 2 9 3 1 2 0
> >>> tune to:
> 662500000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_AUTO:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE
> WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011
> WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000
> WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0010
> >>> tune to:
> 620500000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_AUTO:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE
> WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011
> WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000
> WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0010
>
> ...and so on and so forth.  Googling for "filter timeout pid 0x0011" 
> yeilds lots of results - most of the in languages other than English which 
> Google doesn't understand either, many of them referring to DVB-S as 
> well... Yes, the frequencies are correct - it works fine on the the Nova-T 
> in the main backend which records SDTV nicely.
>
I too am using dual Avermedia 771s with no problems (and yes I am also in 
Melbourne, getting all stations perfectly). I don't remember having any 
troubles getting the avermedias working. I use linuxtv-dvb 1.1.1 for the 
drivers, not the standard drivers that come with FC2 maybe that is the 
difference.

>>I found it difficult to set them up with a stock FC2 install (using
>>Jarods guide) but the main problem was my lack of linux knowlegde.  A
>>linux savvy mate helped me and it is working fine now.
>>
> Where did you go wrong?  This one really has me stumped, and with the 
> addition of ABC 2 to the list of channels that seems to have stuff pop up 
> that I want to record (albeit repeated ad-nauseum) the second card would 
> be really useful around now... :)
>
>>I don't like the idea of HD yet.  I don't have the horsepower, or the
>>storage capacity for it at the moment.  SD Digital looks great so I am
>>happy.
>>
> Never got it to work here properly either... the Nova-T either doesn't 
> like HDTV or the PC is too slow (probably the RAM which was scrounged up 
> from older machines) to handle the data - it skips and jumps like mad.
>
>>I am thinking of getting a third avermedia in the near future.
>>
> Either you watch a damned lot of television or you don't live in 
> Australia... :)  With only 5 FTA channels (7 if you include SBS News and 
> ABC 2 - though I'm yet to see anything worth recording on SBS News sinceI 
> only speak English) there isn't enough around to record.
>
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