[mythtvnz] Optus D1 and Australian TV

[Matt Poff]

On 9/05/2010, at 10:09 AM, Matt Poff wrote:

>
> On 9/05/2010, at 8:53 AM, James Gray wrote:
>
>>>> Do you have a Sky box as well?
>>>
>>> No, just a single LNB, fed to two DVB-S cards via a splitter. This  
>>> is
>>> typical of what I'm seeing in the OSD when switching to an SBS
>>> channel:
>>> Signal 84% | S/N 4.5db | BE 2800 | (1__) | No Lock
>>> Sometimes I get a partial lock also.
>>
>> Have you tried taking the splitter and second card out of the
>> equation?
>
> Interesting. I disconnected the second card at the splitter junction
> and tried again. Got a strong lock this time but plenty of drop-outs
> and glitching. This didn't last though and the system errorred out
> trying to connect to this and other pre-existing previously working NZ
> channels (thought this might be a side-effect of not fully disabling
> the disconnected card. Is it worth setting the option in Myth-Setup
> that only grabs a DVB-S card when it needs it? There's obviously some
> conflict there.

Yep that did it. Disabling EIT polling and checking the option to only  
capture each card when required released the cards to tune to SBS. I  
think the EIT polling option was holding a continual lock on the  
Freeview EIT feed and so preventing a tune to SBS.



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