[mythtv-users] recreating DVB adaptors

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 20:54:51 UTC 2009


On 07/07/2009, Gareth Glaccum <gareth.glaccum at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> I upgraded from 0.21 to trunk, I have removed all of my adaptor cards (and
> deleted all channels, several times), and now have hit a blank mind.
>  For my satellite card, under diseq options, I obviously select LNB, as that
> is what I have.
>
>  However for my DVB-T, what should I select?

No disec required, but you can still set the multirec options on the
recording options screen. Might also want to install/update your udev
rules to ensure the cards keep their respective dvb nodes on each
boot.

>  I am having a minor issue, in that out of 3 DVB-T cards (with 2 multirec
> each) on occasions, channels on the BBC mux (most prevalent on BBC 1 and BBC
> Three), sometimes instead of recording, I get no file whatsoever.
>  I have scratched all channels, and done a scan again, with the recorders.
> It seems that once a recorder has gone into the state where it doesn't work,
> then it remains in that state. Other channels/muxes appear to be OK.

Is this is Nova-T 500 dual DVB-T tuner? There were problems of tuners
getting stuck reported on linux-dvb.You may need a newer firmware if
your current one is old.

>  The quality of the signal appears good (when recording there are no
> artifacts).
>
>  At the same time as going to trunk, I upgraded to F11, however I kept the
> same firmware for the DVB cards, so I do not think that this is the issue.
>  Most of the time there are no errors recorded in the backend logs. On two
> occasions there have been: Wrong PMT, recorded, but searching google/mail
> doesn't seem to throw up anything much relevant (incorrect firmware was one
> suggestion, but I have restored this from the backup before upgrade).

Can mean a fresh scan of channels is required, but as you have done
this, I can't say for certain what else it might be and I'll defer to
the DVB experts.

Note that with DVB-S on trunk with no mux existing information,
channel scanning may be a two step process. First do a tuned scan to
one to a good mux, and then do a scan of all existing muxes on the
DVB-S video source. Alternatively you could import a good
channels.conf file generated from a scan of Astra/Eurobird.

I've just upgrading a non-production box to F11/trunk with DVB-S/T
cards (Hauppauge Nova-S and KWorld DVB-210), so I'll let you know if I
encounter any problems

Nick

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