[mythtv-users] known issues related to DVB-T in Australia (was: Channel tuning broken in 0.24)

Igor Cicimov icicimov at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 01:17:48 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:29 PM, blind Pete <peter_s_d at fastmail.com.au>wrote:

> **
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> On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Igor Cicimov wrote:
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> [big snip]
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> > so no channel9, GO and GEM as we can see.
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> >
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> > From this I would say it is obvious that the tuning problem is not in
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> > MythTV since both scans yield practically same results.. If there is an
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> > issue with the frequency offset in AUS then both w_scan and Myth behave
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> > same and fail to lock to the offset frequency of +125KHz of our carriers.
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> >
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> > What I'm going to do next is add the channel9 frequencies that Vincent
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> > posted into my channel.conf and check if Mplayer can tune to this
> channels
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> > at all.
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> >
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> > Igor
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> SOME Aus stations use a 125 kHz offset. In Melbourne it is Ch 9 and SBS.
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> If you want it to work with version 0.24, and maybe others, scan, then go
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> to "edit transports" and add 125000 to the offending entries. Reception
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> improved dramatically for me when I did that.
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> While you are at it, mark the ABC as add free, and delete duplicate
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> transports.
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> After that write it down somewhere so that you will remember to do it
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> again next time you have to set anything up.
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> --
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> blind Pete
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> Sig goes here...
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Thanks Vincente and Pete, I'll try to do as you suggested when I get some
free time and come back with the results.

Igor
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