On 11/9/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Watkins</b> <<a href="mailto:watkinshome@gmail.com">watkinshome@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 09/11/05, Ben Edwards <<a href="mailto:funkytwig@gmail.com">funkytwig@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I have managed to get a good picture in mplayer so I guess my dvb card is<br>> set up.<br>><br>> When I go to scan shannels it just sits there for about a minute with 'no
<br>> lock' and eventualy gives up and comes up with 'Error tuning to transport';(<br><br>What parameters are you entering for the channel scan? I forget how<br>it's done (advanced something perhaps) but before you do a scan you
<br>have to enter a bunch of parameters related to the dvb transmission<br>from your local transmitter.<br><br><br>These are what I used for Crystal Palace.<br><br>freq 505833330<br>B/W 8MHz
<br>Inversion Auto<br>Constellation QAM 16<br>LP Coderate 3/4<br>HP Coderate 3/4<br>Trans Mode 2K<br>Guard Interval 1/32<br>Hierarchy None<br><br>I worked these out by following this document
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Is this defenatly nessesery? I thought leaving things as auto was OK
now. I was previously using knopixmyth and it just worked. </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html">
http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html</a></blockquote><div><br>
Will have a look at this.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">which showed me how to use scan and tzap, from the dvb-utils package.<br><br>BTW I'm using
18.1. I believe there have been lots of dvb related<br>changes in the SVN version, so things may be different now.</blockquote><div><br>
I just did emerge mythtv and I think it gave me 18.1, does this make sence.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Ben <br>
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