[mythtvnz] DVB issues
Wade Maxfield
mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:50:29 +1200
>For some reason, both Skystar2 cards are acting... strangely. I've
>added /dev/dvb to the mythtv group, recursively.
>
>They will refuse to lock onto a transport (12483) on first scan.
>Going back a screen and re-scanning will work AFTER a failure,
>however, with both cards. They're running on the stock Fedora Core
>2.6.17 drivers.
>
>Mythbackend throws a complete wobbly, saying that there is issues
>with the Initial Tone Setting or something similar. It also claims
>that it can't find the tuning parameters, despite mythtv-setup
>scanning properly (on the second go around).
>
>The PVR150 scans nicely on ivtv 7.0, and doesn't have any issues
>that I can see, but I can't check if the EIT EPG thing is working,
>since mythfrontend is refusing altogether to run any TV watching
>shenanigans.
>
>Does anyone have any tips? What am I doing wrong? Is there some
>setting in Fedora that I haven't configured correctly?
>
Jumping in late, but what are you trying to get off 12483? If it's
just One and TV2 try 12671. You'll probably need to rerun
mythtv-setup and do a channel scan, but it's what I switched to when
I couldn't get 12483 working a couple of weeks ago.
(This is all FC4 2.6.16)
- Wade