[mythtvnz] A few MythTV questions

[Dean Pemberton]

dvbtune is your friend
You'll need to tweek the frequencies and tone settings for your LNB



# dvbtune -f 1883000 -s 22500 -tone 1 -p h -m
Using DVB card "ST STV0299 DVB-S"
tuning DVB-S to L-Band:0, Pol:H Srate=22500000, 22kHz=on
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS:
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI 
FE_HAS_SYNC
Event:  Frequency: 1882665
        SymbolRate: 22500000
        FEC_inner:  3
Bit error rate: 256
Signal strength: 45423
SNR: 53892
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI 
FE_HAS_SYNC
Signal=45443, Verror=0, SNR=53892dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=45441, Verror=0, SNR=53859dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=45120, Verror=0, SNR=53904dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=45755, Verror=0, SNR=53865dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)



Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
> Thanks everyone for your replies,
>
> Nick Rout wrote:
>   
>> What hardware h.264 acceleration? There is no such thing in linux. For
>> reasons why not, go ask nVidia.
>>     
>
>   
>>> It recently occurred to me that my machine may not be powerful
>>> enough, even if everything was fully accelerated. I could upgrade the
>>> graphics to anything else AGP. Am I likely to be able to play H.264 on
>>> this machine if everything goes well, or should I just settle on MPEG-2?
>>>       
>
> Yes, I realise that Gnu/Linux doesn't currently have h.264 acceleration
> for any graphics cards. What I am trying to establish is whether,
> assuming that everything goes wonderfully and Gnu/Linux ends up with the
> maximum amount of acceleration possible, would my machine be able to
> play it.
>
> I live on Auckland's North Shore.
>
> Also, I was wondering whether there is a software "Satellite signal
> strength meter" for Gnu/Linux?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Aaron
>
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