[mythtv-users] DVB card for Australia (melbourne)

[Rob Hillis]

David Whyte wrote:

>I use 2 Avermedia 771's in my box with no problems.  I can't tune SBS,
>but I don't get SBS anywhere in the house even on conventional TV's.
>  
>
I wish I could figure out how to get it installed and working properly.  
It's in my secondary frontend/backend at the moment (operating as a 
backend fine, though the card won't tune so the backend is left down to 
ensure that it's not used) happily presenting /dev/dvb/adapter0 entries, 
showing the following in "dmesg" output...

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:01:05.0, irq: 10, latency: 132, mmio: 
0xfe000000
bttv0: detected: AverMedia AverTV DVB-T [card=124], PCI subsystem ID is 
1461:076
1
bttv0: using: AverMedia AverTV DVB-T 761 [card=124,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=009d00cd [init]
bttv0: using tuner=-1
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
bttv0: add subdevice "remote0"
bttv0: add subdevice "dvb0"
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips: 
tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea642
0,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951),ta8874z
ir-kbd-gpio: bttv IR (card=124) detected at pci-0000:01:05.0/ir0

... but when I go to tune to it, all I get is

mythfe2 scan # ./scan dvb-t/au-vic-Selby
scanning dvb-t/au-vic-Selby
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
initial transponder 662500000 1 3 9 3 1 1 0
initial transponder 620500000 1 2 9 3 1 2 0
initial transponder 641500000 1 3 9 3 1 1 0
initial transponder 711500000 1 3 9 3 1 1 0
initial transponder 683500000 1 2 9 3 1 2 0
 >>> tune to: 
662500000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_AUTO:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0010
 >>> tune to: 
620500000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_AUTO:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000
WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0010

...and so on and so forth.  Googling for "filter timeout pid 0x0011" 
yeilds lots of results - most of the in languages other than English 
which Google doesn't understand either, many of them referring to DVB-S 
as well... Yes, the frequencies are correct - it works fine on the the 
Nova-T in the main backend which records SDTV nicely.

>I found it difficult to set them up with a stock FC2 install (using
>Jarods guide) but the main problem was my lack of linux knowlegde.  A
>linux savvy mate helped me and it is working fine now.
>  
>
Where did you go wrong?  This one really has me stumped, and with the 
addition of ABC 2 to the list of channels that seems to have stuff pop 
up that I want to record (albeit repeated ad-nauseum) the second card 
would be really useful around now... :)

>I don't like the idea of HD yet.  I don't have the horsepower, or the
>storage capacity for it at the moment.  SD Digital looks great so I am
>happy.
>  
>
Never got it to work here properly either... the Nova-T either doesn't 
like HDTV or the PC is too slow (probably the RAM which was scrounged up 
from older machines) to handle the data - it skips and jumps like mad.

>I am thinking of getting a third avermedia in the near future.
>  
>
Either you watch a damned lot of television or you don't live in 
Australia... :)  With only 5 FTA channels (7 if you include SBS News and 
ABC 2 - though I'm yet to see anything worth recording on SBS News 
sinceI only speak English) there isn't enough around to record.