Thanks, added :) Christoph 2009/7/4 Ian W Roberts <ian.w.roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Dear Linux Media people, > > I've struggled to tune various DVB-T devices in Mitcham South Australia. > Mitcham is in the foothills area of Adelaide without a clear line of sight > to the main Mt Lofty transmission towers. The tuning wizards, for instance > in me-tv, only display a single location file for Adelaide (au-Adelaide). > There is an alternative transmitter in the Adelaide CBD (Grenfell Street) to > cover this area. > > I did quite a bit of web searching looking for information about tuning in > this area without much success and no clear statement how to get DVB-T > devices tuned here. > > Guessing that my problem was due to the lack of tuning information for the > Grenfell Street transmitter I created a new file > /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/au-AdelaideFoothills with the following data. I have > been able to tune the 18 stations currently broadcast using the standard > me-tv tuning wizard. :-) I'm not sure that all the data in that file is > optimal but it works! Does anybody have any improvements to suggest. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > # Australia / Adelaide / Grenfell Street > # T freq bw fec_hi fec_lo mod transmission-mode guard-interval hierarchy > # ABC > T 781625000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE > # Seven > T 711500000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE > # Nine > T 795500000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE > # Ten > T 732500000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE > # SBS > T 760500000 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > It would be good if an entry equivalent to my au-AdelaideFoothills could be > included in the linux-tv packages so that residents in the Adelaide > foothills would have an easier experience with DVB-T. How can that data be > included? Who is in a position to incorporate the additional location entry. > > bye > > ian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
