<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 30/08/2008, at 8:48 PM, Andrew Richards wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Ross,<br><br>Have you enabled the on-board Low Noise Amplifier (LNA)?<br><br>Directly from the Nova T 500 wiki:<br><br>sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options<br>/Add:/ options dvb-usb-dib0700 force_lna_activation=1 <br><br><br>Adding that line at the bottom turns on the amplifier, and will <br>hopefully fix your reception problems.<br><br>Let us know how you go with H.264 playback!</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes welcome to the list, and we will all be interested to hear how well your system copes with freeview|HD</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Andrew<br><br>Kenneth Dixon wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Ross, <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The Nova T 500 should work out of the box on 8.04, and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mythtv-setup (0.21) should be able to tune in to the DVB-T<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">signal if it's there. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It's possible you don't have a strong enough signal, I have<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">had trouble with TV3/C4 in the past due to a weak signal.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">DVB-T is UHF, so if you get good Prime reception it is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">likely you can get DVB-T if available (ironically).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">My only other suggestion would be to try tuning it using the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Great Britain setting for tuning.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Once tuned, to view the channels properly you will need to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">get Paul Kendall's patched version of MythTV. He has done a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">lot of work getting it going for New Zealand's DVB-T and has<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">an Ubuntu repository. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">just add the line:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">deb <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/paul-kcbbs/ubuntu">http://ppa.launchpad.net/paul-kcbbs/ubuntu</a> hardy main<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to the end of:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/etc/apt/sources.list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">then:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sudo apt-get update<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sudo apt-get upgrade<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">let us know how you get on.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Good luck, Ken<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">----- Original Message Follows -----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi everyone,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">My name is Ross. I live in Hamilton and I am giving<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Freeview HD a go on MythTV. I have built a Home Theatre<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">PC using the satellite Freeview which worked well. I am<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">new to Linux so I also hope to learn more about that too. <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Anyway hopefully you guys can help me get my system going.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I have built a Intel Core2duo E8200, 2G ram dual channel,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">2x500GB HD system with a Hauppauge WinTV Nova T 500 dual<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">tuner card. I installed Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit Desktop<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">version using software raid. I then installed the MythTV<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Master backend and frontend on this system using Synaptic.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Now I am stuck trying to configure the backend to receive<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the channels. I don't know how to diagnose whether its<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">because I have configured it incorrectly or because there<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">is actually no signal. Also there doesn't appear to be any<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">howtos explaining how to set up Freeview HD at the moment.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Any links to any howtos or ways to check if I have<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">everything configured correctly? 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