[mythtvnz] 22kHz and dvbstream question

[Steven Ellis]

On Mon, November 19, 2007 11:31 am, Tim Boobyer wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2007 11:20 AM, David Zanetti <dave2 at wetstring.net> wrote:
>
>> The way I've dealt with this in the past (specifically thinking about
>> the toneswitch in newer Sky LNBs to select 156E), is use dvbtune to tune
>> the mux backgrounded, and tell dvbstream to just use the existing tuning
>> (which IIRC it does allow).
>>
>> But it's been a while since I had to do that.
>
> That does work for my Skystar 2.  However I bought a Leadtek DVB-T
> card last week, which that does not work for.  dvbtune appears to lock
> the card so that other tools cannot access it while dvbtune is
> running, which makes software like dvbsnoop rather difficult to use.
> Does anyone know what might be going on here?

Another option is to use VLC which can handle tone/switch/diseqc.

Steve

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