Hi, Am Montag, 14. Mai 2007 11:50 schrieb Jim Barber: > Hi all. > > I hope this is the right mailing list to send to. > It's a request to fix an incorrect setting in the configuration file > supplied for the scan utility of the dvb-utils software, the the au-Perth > region. > > I have a Hauppauge Nova-T tuner card and for ages I've been able to get all > of the five TV stations except for Channel 7. I had looked all over the > Internet and the settings reoprted on various wiki's, mailing lists, etc > all agreed with the ones I was trying, but failing with. > > Finally I stumbled across the correct settings on the Digital Broadcasting > Australia's website at the following link: > > http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?sectionID=120 > > The problem is that everywhere, the guard interval for channel 7 has been > reported as being 1/8. This is incorrect. It is actually 1/16. > It was enough to stop me from being able to tune to it, even when doing > auto scans. I was just about to return the DVB-T capture card as faulty > because of this setting reported incorrectly everywhere. > > I'm using Debian, and they have a dvb-utils package that is at version > 1.1.1 that seems to be the latest version. In this package is a file > called: /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/au-Perth The current > contents of this file are as follows: > > # Australia / Perth (Carmel/Bickley transmitters) > # T freq bw fec_hi fec_lo mod transmission-mode guard-interval hierarchy > # ABC > T 226500000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE > # Seven > T 177500000 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE > # Nine > T 191625000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE > # Ten > T 219500000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE > # SBS > T 536625000 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE > > However the entry for "Seven" should be: > > T 177500000 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE > > Is this the correct list to report this problem to so that the file is > corrected in future versions of the utils? I'm applying this to dvb-apps now (a bit later than I intended ...); the distros maintain their packages so I can't say anything about when it'll become available there ... (okay; the latest released tarball on linuxtv is quite old - but I'm not responsible for them ;) > I hope this helps anyone else from Perth who has had the same problem as me > and kept finding the same mis-information that I did. Thanks! > Regards, Christoph _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
