[mythtv-users] Cant tune SBS and Nine in Melbourne, AU with Hauppauge HVR2200
blind_Pete
0123peter at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 09:26:20 UTC 2011
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Anthony Hill wrote:
> ..got sick of my growing collection of slightly crap usb tuners and got me a
> PCIe Hauppauge HVR2200 the other day.
>
> Once I got the modules.conf (options saa7164 card=6) and firmware
> (dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw, NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw) in place
> it seemed to be working fine.
>
> I did a channel scan, setup the video sources, and it seemed all good -
> channels changed fast, signal level was good - and picture looked fine.
>
> Except no SBS (SBS ONE, TWO, 3, 4, and HD) or 9 (Go and GEM).
Nothing at all? Or just a poor picture? Digital is notorious for
either working perfectly or not at all.
Try again. Check tha antenna and connections.
> I found postings from lots of Aussies who seemed to be having similar
> problems. (I suspect these stations changed something [added an extra
> channel?] in the last few months)
Those two stations use a +125 kHz offset. Edit the transports.
> There seemed to be 3 basic fixes.
>
> (1) tzap.
> Install dvb-apps, run scan, create and import a channels.conf
> (2) Edit Transports
> Go to myth-setup, channel editor, edit transports, add a new transport
> for each channel, and rescan
> (3) Delete something from the database and rescan.
>
> ..so tzap and transports didnt really work for me - they both find the new
> channels when I rescan - but they dont work - I get nothing but a blank
> screen when I change to them, the frontend becomes unresponsive for a while
> (and sometimes crashes). I also get no EIT EPG for these channels.
>
> I dont know specifically what the database trick is.
>
> I'm running ubuntu 11.04 with :-
>
> MythTV Version : v0.24.1-60-gd525265
> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.24
> Network Protocol : 63
> Library API : 0.24.20110505-1
> QT Version : 4.7.2
>
> ..please help - I love my new card - but this is a show-stopper.
>
> Cheers.
>
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