[mythtv-users] Card "Still Tuning"

Stephen Kitchener stephen at g6dzj.demon.co.uk
Tue Nov 1 20:18:50 UTC 2011


On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 01/11/11 14:00, John Pilkington wrote:
> > On 01/11/11 13:27, Stephen Kitchener wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >> I have a problem in that one card shows the error "still tuning" when a
> >> recording starts and this of course results in a 0b length recording.
>
> <snip>
>
> >> Any suggestions please ??
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >>
> >> Stephen Kitchener
> >
> > There have been some small changes at several transmitters to squeeze in
> > a new channel in the near future.  Have you deleted all
> > channels/rescanned within Myth recently?
>
> Returning to this : I was in a hurry to get out earlier.
>
> I've had a "Still tuning" failure and another failure for reasons that I
> didn't chase up in the last few days, from cards that don't normally
> show problems.  So I poked about a bit on the ukfree site:
>
> http://www.ukfree.tv/fullstory.php?storyid=1107051919&utm_source=twitterfee
>d&utm_medium=twitter
>
> I don't know if this was the cause, but I rescanned and got slightly
> different results from those after the 'final' retune a couple of months
> ago.  eg
>
> On Aug 31:
>   qam_64:754000000:Gems TV:43:12418:9018:24448:20544=20544:dvb
> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
> qam_64:762000000:4Music:18:12418:9018:25664:24640=24640:dvb
> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
> qam_64:762000000:VIVA:21:12418:9018:25728:24640=24640:dvb
> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
> qam_64:762000000:Yesterday:12:12418:9018:25792:24640=24640:dvb
> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
> qam_64:762000000:Ideal World:22:12418:9018:25920:24640=24640:dvb
> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
>
> Oct 31:
> qam_64:754000000:Gems TV:43:12323:9018:24448:20544=20544:dvb
> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
> qam_64:762000000:4Music:18:12323:9018:25664:24640=24640:dvb
> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
> qam_64:762000000:VIVA:21:12323:9018:25728:24640=24640:dvb
> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
> qam_64:762000000:Yesterday:12:12323:9018:25792:24640=24640:dvb
> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
> qam_64:762000000:Ideal World:22:12323:9018:25920:24640=24640:dvb
> 0:cnt(pnum:1,channum:1)
>
> The rescan was quick and troublefree.  I deleted all dvb-t channels and
> all but one transport.  I left the BBC one, in my case on 794 MHz.
> Scanned that transport for all services with the link to others enabled
> - for some reason I had to do this twice - and the full set of five SD
> transports was populated.  101 DVB channels and 1 MPEG channel, no
> confusion.  I get a good signal from Waltham, using a roof aerial. YMMV.
>   Then rescan for icons, exiting when it starts getting tedious about
> alternatives.
>
> HTH
>
> John P
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Hi John,

I do have an additional question - why would it effect one card and not the 
other ??

-- 

Regards

Stephen Kitchener

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