Duh. 2 days of hunting, and I find the problem right after I post - typical. I used the wrong order of magnitude for the frequencies (incl. LNB) and symbol rate. And that although I in the beginning tried to make extra sure they are correct, remembering that it was a major problem a few years ago when I implemented the original DVB support for MythTV. The MHz vs. KHz vs. Hz is a mess, same for symbolrate. Correct is, for 12817 MHz and Universal LNB, to tune to 1587000, LNB hiband true, in my case with pol H and symbolrate 27500000. // LNB boolean hiband = false; int frequency = c.frequency; final int lnb_low_val = 9750000; // Universal LNB final int lnb_high_val = 10600000; final int lnb_switch_val = 11700000; if (frequency >= lnb_switch_val) hiband = true; if (hiband) frequency = frequency - lnb_high_val; else { if (frequency < lnb_low_val) frequency = lnb_low_val - frequency; else frequency = frequency - lnb_low_val; } int satNo = 0; CoreServer.me.debug("Tuning to " + c.frequency + " (" + frequency + " considering LNB), LNB hiband " + hiband + ", pol " + (polarity_v ? "V" : "H") + ", symbolrate " + symbolrate); myFrontendFD = tuneToNative(myFrontendFilename, frequency, symbolrate, polarity_v, hiband, satNo, false); tuneToNative: ... p.frequency = frequency; p.u.qpsk.symbol_rate = symbolrate; ... says: Tuning to 12187000 (1587000 considering LNB), LNB hiband true, pol H, symbolrate 27500000 _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb