On 12/19/2011 09:51 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 12/19/2011 09:04 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:39 AM, John Pilkington<J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:
>>> I've just connected a PCTVnanoStick T2 to my laptop running 0.24-fixes
>>> under SL6 with the driver package created by the media_build script.
>>> This was done shortly before similar kmdls became available for Fedora
>>> and RHEL6-near-clones from ATrpms.
>>>
>>> I'm lacking HD display and processing capability at present, but I've
>>> seen both SD and HD channels with VLC; Myth is OK with SD but gets only
>>> partial lock on HD.
>>>
>>> For vlc the procedure is: Media> Open Capture Device> DVB>
>>> DVB-T/Transponder Frequency (769666kHz for Waltham)/Bandwidth 8MHz>
>>> Watch the pretty pictures - in my case sometimes a bit pixellated.
>>> This gives BBC HD: other programs are selected from Playback> Program.
>>> The same procedure gives SD if an appropriate mux frequency is
>>> specified. HD Codec info reported 1920*1080 resolution.
>>>
>>> In Mythtvsetup the identification of the right options for the device
>>> was confusing: several card types and chips were offered as
>>> possibilities but only the DVB-T option seems to do anything useful.
>>>
>>> For Mythtvsetup use the Transport Editor to define frequency
>>> (769666666Hz),
>>
>> shouldn't that be 769666000?
>
> This is getting even more embarrassing: a quick google suggests it's
> 770.0 MHz. The 769666666 was initially generated by a vlc scan that I
> triggered unexpectedly by entering dvb:// when I was beginning to lose
> hope. It started, IIRC, at 170 MHz and crawled past two or three SD
> muxes without finding anything; I had moved away when it started
> playing, and that was what it showed then. I didn't check, and my post
> was intended to give the syntax that seemed to work rather than the
> actual frequency. It seemed to work with the myth scan too, but it just
> could be the source of the other problems. Round the loop a few more
> times, I fear.
No overall change; it's still passing zeroes for transport_id and
network_id. Of course these might be understood as default values to be
replaced from somewhere else....
This is from mythbackend -v channel
011-12-19 22:10:05.750 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2011-12-19 22:10:05.751 TVRec(1): Start channel: 50.
2011-12-19 22:10:05.755 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
2011-12-19 22:10:05.756 DVBChan(1:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Opening
DVB channel
2011-12-19 22:10:05.760 LoadFromScheduler(): Error, called from backend.
2011-12-19 22:10:05.771 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free
Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 14 min
2011-12-19 22:10:05.792 ChannelBase(1): SelectChannel 50
2011-12-19 22:10:05.792 DVBChan(1:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Opening
DVB channel
2011-12-19 22:10:05.792 ChannelThread::run
2011-12-19 22:10:05.793 DVBChan(1:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0):
SetChannelByString(50):
2011-12-19 22:10:05.794 DVBSM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Can measure
Signal Strength
2011-12-19 22:10:05.795 DVBSM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Can measure
S/N
2011-12-19 22:10:05.797 DVBSM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Can measure
Bit Error Rate
2011-12-19 22:10:05.797 DVBSM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Can count
Uncorrected Blocks
2011-12-19 22:10:05.797 SM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::RemoveFlags:
Seen() Match() Wait()
2011-12-19 22:10:05.797 DVBSM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0):
DVBSignalMonitor::ctor initial flags Seen() Match()
Wait(Sig,SNR,BER,UB,)
2011-12-19 22:10:05.797 SM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::Start: begin
2011-12-19 22:10:05.797 SM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::Start: end
2011-12-19 22:10:05.799 DVBChan(1:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0):
770000000 qam_256 a auto auto 8 a auto a v fec: auto msys: UNDEFINED
rolloff: 0.35
2011-12-19 22:10:05.799 DVBChan(1:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Old
Params: 770000000 qam_256 a auto auto 8 a auto a v fec: auto msys:
UNDEFINED rolloff: 0.35
DVBChan(1:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): New
Params: 770000000 qam_256 a auto auto 8 a auto a v fec: auto msys:
UNDEFINED rolloff: 0.35
2011-12-19 22:10:05.799 DVBChan(1:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Tune():
Frequency tuning successful.
2011-12-19 22:10:05.800 DVBChan(1:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0):
SetChannelByString(50): Tuned to frequency.
2011-12-19 22:10:05.853
DTVSM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::SetDVBService(transport_id: 0,
network_id: 0, service_id: 17540):
2011-12-19 22:10:05.853 SM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::RemoveFlags:
Seen(PMT,SDT,Crypt,) Match(PMT,SDT,Crypt,) Wait()
2011-12-19 22:10:05.853 SM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::AddFlags:
Seen() Match() Wait(PMT,SDT,)
2011-12-19 22:10:05.853 SM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::AddFlags:
Seen() Match() Wait(PMT,SDT,Pos,)
2011-12-19 22:10:05.853 SM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::AddFlags:
Seen() Match() Wait(Sig,)
2011-12-19 22:10:05.853 SM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::RemoveFlags:
Seen() Match() Wait(Pos,)
2011-12-19 22:10:05.859 DVBSM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): UpdateValues
-- Signal Locked
2011-12-19 22:10:05.859
DTVSM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::GetStatusList: WaitForPMT seen(0)
matching(0)
2011-12-19 22:10:06.018 SM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::AddFlags:
Seen(PAT,) Match() Wait()
2011-12-19 22:10:06.018 SM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::AddFlags:
Seen() Match(PAT,) Wait()
2011-12-19 22:10:06.069 SM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::AddFlags:
Seen(PMT,) Match() Wait()
2011-12-19 22:10:06.069 SM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::AddFlags:
Seen() Match(PMT,) Wait()
2011-12-19 22:10:06.111
DTVSM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::GetStatusList: WaitForPMT seen(1)
matching(1)
2011-12-19 22:10:06.120 DTVSM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Time Offset:
-0.12047
2011-12-19 22:10:06.472 SM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::AddFlags:
Seen(SDT,) Match() Wait()
2011-12-19 22:10:07.126 DTVSM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Time Offset:
-0.1233
2011-12-19 22:10:08.131 DTVSM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Time Offset:
-0.126163