Hi all,<br><br>I recently tore what was left of my hair out over an HVR-3000, but gave up and bought the better supported Hauppauge NOVA-S.<br><br>The card seems to work fine. all channels on Astra 28.2E 2A-C are picked up no problem when I run a scan with the cli tool "scan"
<br>I can't pick up any of the 2D channels however. Nothing below 11700 seems to work. These channels show fine on the SKY stb i have here. and I can use dvbtune to tune to 2D frequencies. dvbstream shows the channels fine. But mythv behaves the same as the scan tool. It cannot lock onto any of the 2D channels. Even if I manually populate the database with the correct details. it get the (l__) no lock error.
<br><br>if i use dvbtune -f 10803000 -p H -s 22000 -m i get this, <br><br>Using DVB card "Conexant CX24123/CX24109"<br>tuning DVB-S to L-Band:0, Pol:H Srate=22000000, 22kHz=off<br>polling....<br>Getting frontend event
<br>FE_STATUS:<br>polling....<br>Getting frontend event<br>FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL<br>polling....<br>Getting frontend event<br>FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC<br>Event: Frequency: 1053000
<br> SymbolRate: 22000000<br> FEC_inner: 5<br>Bit error rate: 0<br>Signal strength: 61952<br>SNR: 65359<br>FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC<br>FE READ UNCORRECTED BLOCKS: : Operation not supported
<br>Signal=61952, Verror=0, SNR=65349dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)<br><br>According to what I've googled so far. the signal and SNR figures show good strength and quality, and with dvbstream and mplayer the picture is fine.
<br><br>I have a "UNIVERSAL" lnb with the standard settings AFAICS, 9750,10600,11700. <br><br>I live in Amsterdam in the Netherlands and have the correct sized dish for the picking up 2D, and like I said, it works flawlessly with the sky digibox i have here. ( A BSKYB-2500S3 Pace Box )
<br><br>I am confused as to why it would work with dvbtune and not "scan" or mythtv. I am using ubuntu 7.10 64bit and kernel 2.6.22-14. I have tried the default kernel modules and with the latest hg clone of v4l-dvb from
<a href="http://linuxtv.org">linuxtv.org</a> and nothing makes any difference. I realise now that this problem was evident with the HVR-3000 also. It had poor picture quality and artifacts etc, and also no 2D but i put that down to poor linux support for the card. Now the NOVA-S gives me perfect picture for the channels it does get (2A-2C) and the picture is good for 2D with dvbstream.
<br><br>Any advice gratefully received.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Mark Guz<br><br><br><br><br>