<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 04/07/2006, at 11:03 PM, Lewis wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Looks to me like the issue could possibly be related to mythtv tuner handling<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">code.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm able to gain locks using tzap with a channels.conf file generated from<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">base transports using the scan utility from dvb-utils.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This worked for me too, in the phase where I couldn't get mythtv to lock on to</DIV><DIV>anything.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The same file used to<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">import the channel data into mythtv</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I was also able to view perfect DVB TV using kaffeine, still no locks in<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">mythtv though.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Double checked the channel parameter settings between<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">kaffeine & channels.conf and they were the same in every detail available int<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the kaffeine channel properties.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Are you actually doing a manually tuned scan, where you specify each of these</DIV><DIV>parameters in a dialogue box prior to scanning, or just loading the channels.conf file?</DIV><DIV>I found that if any one of the parameters was wrong, the manually tuned scan</DIV><DIV>would just stall and nothing would happen, but when the parameters were right</DIV><DIV>then it would quickly scan and lock on.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have dvb card component configured in mythtv as a DVB DTV capture card v3.X,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the frontend shows as a TDA10046H... as I expect it should.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I assume you also do a modprobe. I do this:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>/sbin/modprobe saa7134 oss=1 card=71</DIV><DIV>/sbin/modprobe saa7134-dvb</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(I see later in your post that you may be.)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On a side note I've found the dvb modules do not always load the same way,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">sometimes card types detected sometimes not.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The dvb devices are not always<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">created when the modules load, haven't got my head around udev yet.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It seems<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">using modconf to reload the various saa7134 usually works with udev to create<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the /dev/dvb related files, while using modprobe never does.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You can't reset the machine with this card. You must power down and then power</DIV><DIV>back up. I've read that there is some soft state that prohibits the card from registering</DIV><DIV>when a reset is done, rather than a power down/up (I guess this supports the power</DIV><DIV>on schedule functionality). If you reset, then the card comes</DIV><DIV>up as a "generic/unknown" card, rather than as a Philips.</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> <DIV>-a</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>