[mythtv-users] WinTV Nova fails channel search

Len Lawrence lcl at tarazed.demon.co.uk
Sun Sep 12 23:19:11 UTC 2010


Hi guys

Freeview antenna, Hauppage WinTV Nova DVB-t USB adapter

Googling around I discovered that there might be system utilities to
scan for channels and sure enough Mandriva has scandvb.  Tried it out
but the results do not look good.  Can anybody interpret this listing 
for adapter 0?
The 0 services looks ominous.  For adapter 1 the output looks similar.

[lcl at altair ~]$ scandvb -a 0 -t 1 -u 
/usr/share/dvb-apps/scan/dvb-t/uk-BlackHill
scanning /usr/share/dvb-apps/scan/dvb-t/uk-BlackHill
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
initial transponder 634167000 0 3 9 1 0 0 0
initial transponder 682167000 0 2 9 3 0 0 0
initial transponder 658167000 0 2 9 3 0 0 0
initial transponder 714167000 0 3 9 1 0 0 0
initial transponder 746000000 0 3 9 1 0 0 0
initial transponder 826000000 0 3 9 1 0 0 0
 >>> tune to: 
634167000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE
WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
 >>> tune to: 
634167000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE 
(tuning failed)
WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
 >>> tune to: 
682167000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_AUTO:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0010
 >>> tune to: 
658167000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_AUTO:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0010
 >>> tune to: 
714167000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0010
 >>> tune to: 
746000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0010
 >>> tune to: 
826000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE
WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
 >>> tune to: 
826000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE 
(tuning failed)
WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
dumping lists (0 services)
Done.

Len




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