Hi I too have just acquired a 290e and I am having difficulty getting it to work with VDR. Apart from the flakey driver at the moment, 'seeding' VDR's channel.conf is difficult. I tried using w_scan like this: w_scan -c GB -o 7 -I my_init_tune_file My tuning file (UK Sandy Heath) contained 1 line like this: T 474166670 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM256 32k 1/32 NONE w_scan produced this: BBC HD;BBC:474166670:I999B8C23D0M998T999G32Y0:T:27500:101:0:0:0:17472:0:0:0 BBC One HD;BBC:474166670:I999B8C23D0M998T999G32Y0:T:27500:6601:0:0:0:17540:0:0:0 ITV1 HD;ITV:474166670:I999B8C23D0M998T999G32Y0:T:27500:201:0:0:0:17603:0:0:0 Channel 4 HD;CHANNEL FOUR:474166670:I999B8C23D0M998T999G32Y0:T:27500:301:0:0:0:17664:0:0:0 However, VDR uses the first available tuning device when one of these channels is selected, which happens to be a DVB-T device and not the 290e DVB-T2 device. Is this a problem with channels.conf or do I need to use a later version of VDR? I am currently using VDR 1.7.15. Laz how exactly did you 'seed' your channels.conf? Thanks Stuart --- On Fri, 19/8/11, Laz <laz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Laz <laz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: FreeviewHD success with Nanostick 290e > To: "Chris Rankin" <rankincj@xxxxxxxxx>, "VDR Mailing List" <vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Friday, 19 August, 2011, 8:55 > > Hi Chris (and list) > > I've just been doing a bit more testing with my recently > acquired Nanostick > 290e... > > I added a fake channel with the frequency 618000000 MHz (my > HD mux), QAM256, > and everything else set to auto or random values. I then > switched to it. vdr > then picked up BBC HD, ITV1 HD, Channel4 HD, and BBC One > HD. > > It was clever enough to switch to the Nanostick for the HD > mux because it's > the only device that can do QAM256 (not sure if _only_ > DVB-T2 includes QAM256 > or whether my other devices are too old ot do it as part of > DVB-T). > > I get now/next EPG for the HD channels but it's encrypted > (it needs a plugin > to decode, from what others have said). > > If I switch to BBC One HD, femon gives me a video bit-rate > of about 7 Mbit / s > and an audio bit-rate of about 150 kbit / s. It claims to > have a signal > strength of 70% but I'm not sure I believe that! By > comparison, BBC One gives > me something like 3 Mbit / sv video and 260 kbit / s audio, > and signal > strength of 70%. > > vdr has now written out the new entries to channels.conf: > > BBC > HD;BBC:618000000:B8C23D23M256Y0:T:0:101=27:102=eng@17,106=eng@17:0:0:17472:9018:16516:0 > ITV1 > HD;ITV:618000000:B8C23D23M256Y0:T:0:201=27:202=eng@17,206=eng@17:0:0:17604:9018:16516:0 > Channel 4 HD;CHANNEL > FOUR:618000000:B8C23D23M256Y0:T:0:301=27:302=eng@17,306=eng@17:0:0:17664:9018:16516:0 > BBC One > HD;BBC:618000000:B8C23D23M256Y0:T:0:6601=27:6602=eng@17,6606=eng@17:0:0:17540:9018:16516:0 > > These are from the Emley Moor transmitter (I'm not sure how > whether PIDs, > etc., are the same between different transmitters but it > might help someone.) > > I'm not seeing anything on my tele' but I suspect my output > device (a Matrox > G450 with softdevice) can't go up to that high a > resolution! Actually, I don't > think it will currently play anything other than MPEG2. > > I have a recording going from BBC One HD and there is a > 00001.ts file which is > growing rapidly. > > I just played it back on a different PC. Mplayer output: > > Playing 00001.ts. > TS file format detected. > VIDEO H264(pid=6601) AUDIO AAC LATM(pid=6602) SUB > DVB(pid=6605) PROGRAM N. > 132 > FPS seems to be: 25.000000 > Load subtitles in ./ > ========================================================================== > Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec > family > Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) > ========================================================================== > ========================================================================== > Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio > decoders > AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: > 0->192000) > Selected audio codec: [fflatm] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC in > LATM) > ========================================================================== > AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) > Starting playback... > Unsupported PixelFormat 61 > Unsupported PixelFormat 53 > [h264 @ 0xeccca0]mmco: unref short failure > Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie > aspect. > VO: [vdpau] 1440x1080 => 1920x1080 Planar YV12 > > Looking good! > > As far as I can tell, it seems to be working. > > :-) > > Next step, get the epg sorted out... > > Cheers, > > Laz > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
