I am only guessing, but to me the log messages you are getting suggest a
problem something to do with USB rather than a DVB problem.
Signal strength should not be a problem if you live near Crystal Palace - it
is transmitting at 20,000W!! I can receive DVB-T stuff from Crystal Palace
even though I am not too far from Brighton (although I do have a good
aerial!).
See http://www.ukfree.tv/txdetail.php?a=TQ339712 for frequencies/channels
etc., e.g. 506MHz, 16QAM, probably will have a BBC chanel on video PID 640,
audio PID 641,
Cheers, Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Chandler" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:31 AM
Subject: Freecom USB DVB-T woes
I have been trying for some time to get freecom dvb-t usb sticks to work on
my
server, so I could set up a mythtv backend. At least tonight I finally
managed to get a mythtv frontend working with it, so I could see the
actual
picture.
I am near Crystal Palace in the UK, with a loft aerial, so I would have
suspected a reasonably strong signal. I am sharing the feed with a
Panasonic
PVR, and that is working perfectly.
I have built the dvb drivers from the latest (of two days ago) mercurial
repository
Some issues
- I get regular failures in the log like the following. This is with a
single
stick plugged in, watching BBC ONE apparently perfectly. Reading the
code,
it implies I am getting USB protocol problems. What could caused that?
Sep 13 23:57:06 roo kernel: dvb-usb: recv bulk message failed: -75
Sep 13 23:57:08 roo kernel: dvb-usb: recv bulk message failed: -71
Sep 13 23:57:09 roo kernel: dvb-usb: recv bulk message failed: -75
Sep 13 23:57:44 roo last message repeated 8 times
Sep 13 23:58:23 roo last message repeated 2 times
Sep 13 23:58:26 roo kernel: dvb-usb: bulk message failed: -71 (1/0)
Sep 13 23:59:00 roo kernel: dvb-usb: recv bulk message failed: -75
Sep 13 23:59:31 roo last message repeated 5 times
- I can't (despite doing so a week ago) get the stick to lock on in
dvbscan on
ITV channels (according to some UK information, the BBC is encoded with
QAM16
whilst ITV is encoded QAM64 Does that make a difference?
--
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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