On 09/11/05, Ben Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/9/05, David Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 09/11/05, Ben Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have managed to get a good picture in mplayer so I guess my dvb card > is > > > set up. > > > > > > When I go to scan shannels it just sits there for about a minute with > 'no > > > lock' and eventualy gives up and comes up with 'Error tuning to > transport';( > > > > What parameters are you entering for the channel scan? I forget how > > it's done (advanced something perhaps) but before you do a scan you > > have to enter a bunch of parameters related to the dvb transmission > > from your local transmitter. > > > > > > These are what I used for Crystal Palace. > > > > freq 505833330 > > B/W 8MHz > > Inversion Auto > > Constellation QAM 16 > > LP Coderate 3/4 > > HP Coderate 3/4 > > Trans Mode 2K > > Guard Interval 1/32 > > Hierarchy None > > > > I worked these out by following this document > > Is this defenatly nessesery? I thought leaving things as auto was OK now. > I was previously using knopixmyth and it just worked. > > http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html
Not all the parameters are necessary. However, when I did my install the opinion on this list was that the frequency plus a couple of others were required. That was certainly my experience. I didn't work with them all at auto. I believer that some of the linux/myth bundles use the stable SVN build so maybe your knopixmyth had different scanning code. I don't really know. > > Will have a look at this. > > > which showed me how to use scan and tzap, from the dvb-utils package. > > > > BTW I'm using 18.1. I believe there have been lots of dvb related > > changes in the SVN version, so things may be different now. > > I just did emerge mythtv and I think it gave me 18.1, does this make sence. Sorry - I don't know what version of myth is packaged with Gentoo. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users