[mythtvnz] DVB-S no lock when scanning channels on 12483 but12456 is ok.

[Vance McIndoe]

I've had a bad run on those cards. I finally have two that work now, but also two that didn't work, right out of the box. 



On 17/10/2010, at 11:15 AM, "Julius Spencer" <julius at msa.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have the same problem - have had for about a year now.  While scanning II have a signal of 98% and the signal/noise % bounces around and I don't get a lock.
> 
> I have even bought a second card in case the old one was broken - so now I have two Nova S Plus cards.
> 
> Did you manage to figure it out?
> (I have a DSE Freeview device which can play all channels so I know it's not the dish or signal)
> 
> I am using:
> 
> Frequency : 12456000 or 12483000
> Polarity : horizontal
> Symbol Rate : 22500000
> FEC : Auto
> Inversion : Auto
> 
> Cheers,
> Julius.
> 
> 
> On 16/08/2010, at 1:21 PM, Bob . wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Bob . <maillists.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Any idea why this might be happening?
> >>
> >> Are you sure you have it set to horizontal polarity?
> >
> > Yep.  And I've tried with vertical polarity, and explict 3/4 FEC, and
> > inversion on and off.  Still no luck.
> >
> >
> > One thing I noticed was that the transports that myth automatically
> > created for the 12456 scans were QPSK whereas the one for the 12483
> > scan was AUTO.  I guess it can only figure that out once it gets a
> > lock... I tried to manually create the transport but there is no
> > option for choosing the modulation.
> >
> >
> > I also scrapped all the settings right back to the capture card and
> > recreated everything hoping that would clear out some gremlins...
> > didn't seem to.
> >
> >
> > Any other advice?
> >
> > Ta.
> >
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