[mythtv-users] known issues related to DVB-T in Australia (was: Channel tuning broken in 0.24)

[Anthony Giggins]

On 5 June 2012 11:59, Igor Cicimov <icicimov at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Anthony Giggins <
> seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 4 June 2012 23:29, Igor Cicimov <icicimov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3 June 2012 18:38, Karl Dietz <dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > One is that the channel scanner stores the center frequency instead of
>>>> > the offset frequency of the transports which makes successful tuning
>>>> > harder depend on the quality of your DVB-T frontend.
>>>> > http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9777
>>>>
>>>> This issue is mostly specific to the DVB-T adapter used and none of
>>>> them will behave the same.
>>>>
>>>
>>>   Agree, and this one worked fine on 0.20.
>>>
>>>
>>>> The better solution is to stick with DVB-T adapters known to work with
>>>> MythTV
>>>>
>>>
>>>  Such as?
>>>
>>>  Looks like there should be a list of tuners best supported per MythTV
>>> release :)
>>>
>>>
>>> The HDHR DVB Version seems to work well enough in Aus.
>>
>> The last time I rescanned I had no issues.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>>
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> Hi Anthony,
>
> Thanks for the reply it's good to know that. The point I want to make here
> is that everything is relative :). If someone asked me couple of weeks ago
> while I was still on 0.20 would I recommend my tuner card for DVB-T on
> MythTV I would have said YES. But now when I moved to 0.24 and 0.25 I can't
> say that can I ?!
>
> In your case I would say "HDHR DVB Version seems to work well enough in
> Aus in the CURRENT MythTV version you are running on your box". As you can
> see from my experience that can change in 0.27 lets say due to some DB
> table change or what ever.
>
> Cheers,
> Igor
>
> Sure but what else was changed when you sent from 0.20 to 0.24 & 0.25 ?
surely your not running the same OS version that 0.20 was running on?

I've always had better luck scanning on my HDHR rather then my PCI Dvico
DVB-T Plus http://www.octapc.com.au/images/p_dvbtplus.jpg

Cheers,

Anthony
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