Quoting Jim Householder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Phill Edwards wrote: > >>I'm making some progress with mythtv. Using the excellent guidance at > >>http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php I have 0.18.1-114 running on FC4. > >> > >>Hardware: V-Stream DTV DVB-T, 2.4GHz P4, 1GB ram > >> > >>I can watch the composite input from a VCR ok, but no digital yet. > >> > >>I adjusted the permissions on /dev/dvb so the card can be seen and > >>identified ok, and the channel scan button is now active in the channel > >>editor. > >> > >>I'm stuck here. I have no idea how to set up the scan parameters. I > >>suspect 'auto' is sufficient for most. All I get is 'no lock'. I've > >>tried 571625000 for channel 34 (SBS in my area) and 520000000 (start of > >>the UHF band). > >> > >>What frequency should I use? > > > > > > I think it depends on where you are and what transmitters you are > > near. Have a look at http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalTvHowto > > for help. I'm in Sydney in view of the Manly antennae so if that helps > > I could tell you my frequencies. > > > > BTW - I use the same cards as you. Would you mind sharing how you got > > them to take input from a VCR as that's something I want to do as > > well. > > > That's a bit of a problem now... I have the RCA video out connected to > the composite input of the card, and the audio directly to the line-in > of my sound card. Works fine now with tvtime, but I can no longer > select the composite input with mythtv. Don't know how I managed the > first time. > > The tzap pointer has helped a lot. tzap showed me the card was working, > and data from the channel.conf* files got me through the channel scan - > sort of. I get SBS 1, 2, and EPG, but I need to use the browse function > to switch between them. The arrow keys don't work. > > After the first scan I got one ABC channel and 3 SBS. I could only > watch the ABC. At that point I had not tried the browse bit yet, so SBS > was probably there. Then I stuffed up and started over. Now I get the > SBS channels but cannot get a lock on the ABC. > > I need data for the Mt. Lennard transmitters near Bunbury, WA. > > Is there a way to import dvb-utils' channel.conf into mythtv? > > TIA > Jim > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
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