[mythtv-users] Card "Still Tuning"

[John Pilkington]

On 01/11/11 14:00, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 01/11/11 13:27, Stephen Kitchener wrote:

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>> I have a problem in that one card shows the error "still tuning" when a
>> recording starts and this of course results in a 0b length recording.
>>
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>> Any suggestions please ??
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Stephen Kitchener
>>
>
> There have been some small changes at several transmitters to squeeze in
> a new channel in the near future.  Have you deleted all
> channels/rescanned within Myth recently?
>

Returning to this : I was in a hurry to get out earlier.

I've had a "Still tuning" failure and another failure for reasons that I 
didn't chase up in the last few days, from cards that don't normally 
show problems.  So I poked about a bit on the ukfree site:

http://www.ukfree.tv/fullstory.php?storyid=1107051919&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

I don't know if this was the cause, but I rescanned and got slightly 
different results from those after the 'final' retune a couple of months 
ago.  eg

On Aug 31:
  qam_64:754000000:Gems TV:43:12418:9018:24448:20544=20544:dvb 
0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
qam_64:762000000:4Music:18:12418:9018:25664:24640=24640:dvb 
0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
qam_64:762000000:VIVA:21:12418:9018:25728:24640=24640:dvb 
0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
qam_64:762000000:Yesterday:12:12418:9018:25792:24640=24640:dvb 
0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
qam_64:762000000:Ideal World:22:12418:9018:25920:24640=24640:dvb 
0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)

Oct 31:
qam_64:754000000:Gems TV:43:12323:9018:24448:20544=20544:dvb 
0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
qam_64:762000000:4Music:18:12323:9018:25664:24640=24640:dvb 
0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
qam_64:762000000:VIVA:21:12323:9018:25728:24640=24640:dvb 
0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
qam_64:762000000:Yesterday:12:12323:9018:25792:24640=24640:dvb 
0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
qam_64:762000000:Ideal World:22:12323:9018:25920:24640=24640:dvb 
0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)

The rescan was quick and troublefree.  I deleted all dvb-t channels and 
all but one transport.  I left the BBC one, in my case on 794 MHz. 
Scanned that transport for all services with the link to others enabled 
- for some reason I had to do this twice - and the full set of five SD 
transports was populated.  101 DVB channels and 1 MPEG channel, no 
confusion.  I get a good signal from Waltham, using a roof aerial. YMMV. 
  Then rescan for icons, exiting when it starts getting tedious about 
alternatives.

HTH

John P