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[Andrew Richards]

Ross,

Have you enabled the on-board Low Noise Amplifier (LNA)?

Directly from the Nova T 500 wiki:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options
/Add:/ options dvb-usb-dib0700 force_lna_activation=1 


Adding that line at the bottom turns on the amplifier, and will 
hopefully fix your reception problems.

Let us know how you go with H.264 playback!

Andrew

Kenneth Dixon wrote:
> Hi Ross, 
>
> The Nova T 500 should work out of the box on 8.04, and
> mythtv-setup (0.21) should be able to tune in to the DVB-T
> signal if it's there. 
> It's possible you don't have a strong enough signal, I have
> had trouble with TV3/C4 in the past due to a weak signal.
> DVB-T is UHF, so if you get good Prime reception it is
> likely you can get DVB-T if available (ironically).
> My only other suggestion would be to try tuning it using the
> Great Britain setting for tuning.
>
> Once tuned, to view the channels properly you will need to
> get Paul Kendall's patched version of MythTV. He has done a
> lot of work getting it going for New Zealand's DVB-T and has
> an Ubuntu repository. 
> just add the line:
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/paul-kcbbs/ubuntu hardy main
> to the end of:
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> then:
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> let us know how you get on.
>
> Good luck, Ken
>
>
> ----- Original Message Follows -----
>   
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> My name is Ross.  I live in Hamilton and I am giving
>> Freeview HD a go on MythTV.  I have built a Home Theatre
>> PC using the satellite Freeview which worked well.  I am
>> new to Linux so I also hope to learn more about that too. 
>> Anyway hopefully you guys can help me get my system going.
>>
>> I have built a Intel Core2duo E8200, 2G ram dual channel,
>> 2x500GB HD system with a Hauppauge WinTV Nova T 500 dual
>> tuner card.  I installed Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit Desktop
>> version using software raid.  I then installed the MythTV
>> Master backend and frontend on this system using Synaptic.
>>
>> Now I am stuck trying to configure the backend to receive
>> the channels.  I don't know how to diagnose whether its
>> because I have configured it incorrectly or because there
>> is actually no signal. Also there doesn't appear to be any
>> howtos explaining how to set up Freeview HD at the moment.
>>
>> Any links to any howtos or ways to check if I have
>> everything configured correctly?  Anyone living in
>> Hamilton?
>>
>> Regards
>> Ross
>>
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