[mythtv-users] DVB-C and mythTV : @home Netherlands

[Marcel Janssen]

On Thursday 18 October 2007, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get a DVB-C card working with MythTV (and some other programs
> as well) but so far I've had very little luck in the process.
>
> The most I got at the moment is a few channels via xine. I guess I could
> import that in MythT but it includes only channels I never watch :-(
>
> The card I'm using is a KNC1 DVB-C PCI. The budget_av driver seems to load
> well and after many attempts I got a few channels that I can select in xine
> (proof that the card works I would say).
>
> The problems I had include that there is no channel file for my region.
> Second I found the w_scan utility but it returns zero channels no matter
> what options I use. w_scan must be wrong since xine can display some
> channels. Regarding xine I used one of the channel files from the dvb-apps
> package (nl_Casema) which is for the Netherlands, but not my region.
>
> I tried a full scan in mythtv, but had no clue what to enter for
> "frequency" and "Symbol rate". I had a look at the channel file I used to
> create channels.conf for xine and figured it would be 372000000 and 6875000
> Unfortunately MythTV doesn't do much when entering those values. Scanning
> stays at 3% for a very long time so I guess it's not active.
>
> Is there anything else I can try or does someone know anything about
> getting this to work on a @home netwerk in the Netherlands (Limburg).

After some more tying, I found that when I scan using different frequency 
settings I eventually find all channels. I will have to compose one 
channels.conf file from all those scans. Although it's a bit more work, it 
should work for all channels I guess.

regards,
Marcel