[mythtv-users] UK FreeSAT and ITV-HD

Robert RobertCL at iname.com
Mon Jan 26 09:33:27 UTC 2009


On Mon, January 26, 2009 9:24 am, Bradley Kite wrote:
> 2009/1/26 Robert <RobertCL at iname.com>:
>> On Mon, January 26, 2009 7:16 am, Bradley Kite wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Has any body had success with ITV-HD on FreeSAT?
>>>
>>> I've tried scanning (with both MythTV and dvbscan) but cannot find the
>>> channel?
>>>
>>> I can get BBC-HD just fine.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> --
>>> Brad.
>>
>> It's on 11428h, symbolrate 27500.
>>
>> You need to patch Myth to make it play back
>> (http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5388) and even then I still get some
>> front-end crashes if I seek around too much, but it's watchable.
>>
>> Robert.
>
>
> Hi.
>
> Thanks for the info. I'm running 0.21-fixes at the moment so will need
> to pick a good (ie stable) time to move to trunk in order to use the
> latest of the patches mentioned in that ticket (otherwise my wife
> might get upset). Can any one recommend a reasonably stable revision
> of trunk, or is it a "finger in the air" type thing?
>

I've just applied that patch to 0.21-fixes and it seems to work ok.  No
need to move to trunk.

> I tried a scan last night using dvbscan - and it didnt find any channel
> 10510.
>
> Maybe my /usr/share/dvb/dvb-s/Astra-28.2E file needs updating - it
> doesnt mention 11428h/27500 (closest is: S 11426000 H 27500000 2/3)

Just create a file with that in and manually dvb-scan.  I can't remember
the command line options, but it can be done.

Robert.




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