<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Sans Serif'; font-size:12pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Saturday 23 Jan 2010, Nick Morrott wrote:<br>
> 2010/1/23 Stephen Kitchener <stephen@g6dzj.demon.co.uk>:<br>
> > Hi,<br>
> ><br>
> > I have a problem - or rather my mythtv set-up has a problem, it cannot<br>
> > receive 2 of the 6 mux's in the UK.<br>
><br>
> Which transmitter are you receiving from, and which muxes are missing?<br>
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> > I and running Mythtv 0.22 and the video cards are KWORLD /VStream XPert<br>
> > DVB-T cards (Zarlink MT352)<br>
><br>
> I have 3 of those cards in my MBE - they've been rock solid for nearly<br>
> 4 years now (Sutton Coldfield Tx).<br>
><br>
> > So here's the information, I have two machines that have the same model<br>
> > of DVB-T cards in them, one machine has Mythtv installed the other has<br>
> > not (as its new hardware waiting for mythtv installation). On the mythtv<br>
> > installed machine, it cannot receive BBC4 on it via mythtv, it gives LMs<br>
> > - Partial lock when trying to tune to that station.<br>
><br>
> When was the last time you rescanned you channels? What version of<br>
> MythTV are you currently running? Are you in a region of the UK that<br>
> has undergone Digital Switch Over (DSO)?<br>
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> > On the new machine I decided to check to see if the problem was the same<br>
> > on that, but this time via vlc, to my surprise I could get BBC4, so back<br>
> > to the original Mythtv machine and I installed vlc there also, and now I<br>
> > could get BBC 4 correctly, but I still could not get BBC4 via mythtv.<br>
> > Each of vlc and mythtv are tuned to the same mux frequency, so my<br>
> > question is, is Mythtv more picky in what it will display, or is vlc more<br>
> > lackadaisical in its criteria for display.<br>
><br>
> Are you using quick tuning for recordings/LiveTV? If so, turn it off<br>
> and see if it helps.<br>
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><br>
> > And more importantly what can I do about it ??<br>
><br>
> If vlc on the mythbox gives you perfect digital TV, your DVB card is<br>
> performing adequately and your cabling is providing a strong enough<br>
> signal to not warrant checking upstream of your DVB card's RF input in<br>
> the first instance.<br>
><br>
> You could run scan (or your distro's equivalent DVB scanning tool)<br>
> with a mux config file for your local transmitter, and compare the<br>
> channel settings in the resulting channels.conf file with your MythTV<br>
> channel settings (using the channel editor in mythtv-setup or<br>
> MythWeb).<br>
><br>
> You can also increase the logging verbosity (backend logfile) to<br>
> include "channel" as that may give more useful debug info.<br>
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> > I did read somewhere that on some digital cards there is a option for<br>
> > switching on an on-board pre-amp for the signal, but I have no<br>
> > information about this for this card.<br>
><br>
> The Nova-T 500 has an onboard LNA that can improve signal strength,<br>
> but I don't think the Xpert cards do.<br>
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> Cheers,<br>
> Nick<br>
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mustard<br>
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