[mythtv-users] OT: DVB-T2 projects UK based

[Andre]

On 12 May 2011, at 11:25, David Watkins wrote:

>> 
>> I would give priority to using the roof aerial, unless you're in the
>> same postcode as Crystal Palace.  Your other box should have good
>> starting transport parameters, and setup has a 'look for other
>> transports' setting.  Good luck.
>> 
> 
> I'm not in the same postcode, probably 6 miles or so from the
> transmitter, and  I've just noticed that the HD multiplex is quite low
> power!
> 
> So I plugged into the roof aerial and rescanned ...
> 
> 
> Curiously this scan didn't find any of the previously found DVB
> channels, but it did find four new ones.
> 
> BBC HD
> BBC One HD
> ITV1 HD
> Channel 4 HD
> 
> Hurrah!

Interesting that it scans and tunes without any extra T2 specific support from Myth, I guess from looking at the code that the default & auto T2 specifics work fine? 

I wouldn't care if it didn't work with DVBT1 yet, tuners for that are really cheap and multirec would keep a T2 tuner busy most of the time on that mux alone.



> 
> I grabbed some listing data for BBC One HD and scheduled a recording.

Was this xmltv stuff? I'm assuming that Freeview HD EIT didn't work, I understand it's supposed to be very like Freesat EIT but  at least probably uses different huffman tables unless they are being very very nice to us!

Would be great to get a short clip if poss.

Andre 


> 
> 
> On the frontend, the recording showed as "Tuning" for a long time, but
> this time when I looked, a recording file was being created.
> 
> 
> After about 45s the frontend status changed from "Tuning" to "Recording".
> 
> 
> I stopped the recording after about 10 minutes, copied the recorded
> file to my desktop computer and played it back using VLC.  Sound and
> picture looked great.
> 
> 
> I haven't tried the other channels yet not simultaneouse recordings,
> but it's looking pretty good so far.  Now I need to get a HD MythTV
> frontend working and that'll be my trigger to go out and buy an HD
> television.
> 
> Many thanks to Steve Kerrison and Antti Palosaari for their work on the driver.
> 
> 
> For the record
> 
> I'm running a Zotac ION motherboard running Fedora FC14 and using
> kernel 2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686
> MythTV 0.24 Fixes compiled from source
> cxd2820r driver from git on 9th May 2011
> 
> I did try the V4L option on the mythtv-setup card installation and it
> didn't work.  Card installed OK but later on I wasn't able to create
> an input connection to it.
> 
> I didn't change any of the default tuning parameters in the card setup.
> 
> 
> and thanks for the help offered on this list.
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