[mythtv-users] Unable to view Five US & Five Life on Freeview

Gary Dawes gary.dawes at gmail.com
Mon Dec 31 18:04:47 UTC 2007


On 31/12/2007, GR <myth at nmysbh.org.uk> wrote:
>
> I'm running Myth 0.20.2 on a SuSE 10.3 box, with NOVA-T PCI DVB-T cards.
>
> I've noticed that I can no longer view Five US or Five Life channels. If
> I try and select them, I usually get a message telling me that a lock
> could not be established. Often, after about 15 seconds, I get the audio
> coming through fine, but I just get garbage for the picture.
>
> On my domestic Freeview box, I had a similar problem, and that was
> solved by getting it to rescan for all channels.
>
> I tried this with Myth, but this did not improve things. Slightly
> stabbing in the dark, I tried removing the two channels from the
> channels table ("delete from channel where channum=35;") and then
> re-scanning again. Myth re-found the channels, but with the same results.
>
> I'm in North Wales, using the Llanddona transmitter.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> GR
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check your multiplex frequencies are actually correct against one of the
sites listing transmitter information. Mine was slightly off, and as a
result I could not lock on to one multiplex. Manually edited them in the
transport editor, mythtv setup option 5, and it's now fine.

hope this helps

Gary
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