FWD: RE: [Wylug-help] linux dvb help anyone?

[Andy Macdonald]

I passed this on to NTL bod I know, who's passed it on to someone else at NTL,
etc and here it is back again (I don't understand much either) ...
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 23 Sep
From: Richard Mcleod @ Emley Moor <Richard.McLeod at NTL.com>
To: Peter Kelly <Peter.Kelly at NTL.com>, 'Andy' <andy at greenhead.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: [Wylug-help] linux dvb help anyone?


Cheers Pete,


Andy,

If you want to forward this on it might be some help, but I can't say as I
havn't understood a word of it yet be assured some of ntls best brains have
been on the job!

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Kelly
Sent: 23 September 2003 13:08
To: Richard Mcleod @ Emley Moor
Subject: FW: [Wylug-help] linux dvb help anyone?


Here you go Ricardo...

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Onyskiw
Sent: 23 September 2003 13:04
To: Peter Kelly
Subject: RE: [Wylug-help] linux dvb help anyone?


Not used the application or the card, so can't answer with authority :-(

Doing a "google" turned up one warning: "Recent 'Nova-T' cards have a
different tuner frontend, which is currently unsupported by the Linux DVB
driver.  It shouldn't be long before this situation changes, but in the
meantime, you'll just have to sit tight. You can identify the new card by
looking at the large metal tuner box - if it says
Philips TDM1316, you're out of luck :( " from:
http://klub.org/~gdh/vdr_dxr3_howto.txt dated 6 Jun 2003
Same link also contained the following (non-xml?) commands to generate a
channels.conf file:
"$ dvbtune -f 759833
$ ./scan -c -o vdr >>/video/channels.conf"
where 759833 is a mux frequency in kHz (see values for Emley below). Not
sure which application "scan" comes from. Repeat for remaining 5 muxes.

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-dvb@linuxtv.org/msg07899.html has some
details about the 16/64QAM issues (D34 & SDN are 64QAM, rest are 16QAM), and
other useful stuff (but uses the xml conversion method).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvbtools has the latest CVS tree, in which
an author apparently fixed a few bugs in dvbtune.c and xml2vdr.c recently"
(Jun 2002). The site looks a little spartan, though???

http://www.linuxstb.org/dvbtune/index.shtml seems to be related, and might
have some pointers re: xml...  http://www.linuxstb.org/news.shtml seems to
be its parent.

FWIW, the RF Channels in use at Emley are:
40(-): Mux2 "ITV & C4"		625833 (kHz)
43(-): MuxA "SDN"			649833
46(-): MuxB "BBC"			673833
49(-): MuxD "Crown Castle"	697833
50(-): MuxC "Crown Castle"	705833
52(+): Mux1 "BBC"			722167

Frequency in MHz = (UHF CHANNEL NUMBER * 8) + 306. Depending on what your
offset for that mux is, add, subtract 167kHz, or do nothing.

http://www.itc.org.uk/uploads/DTT%20Pocket%20Guide%20V2.5.pdf is the channel
guide

Hope this helps some?
Mike Onyskiw

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Kelly
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:23 AM
> To: Mike Onyskiw
> Subject: FW: [Wylug-help] linux dvb help anyone?
>
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Interesting linux problem - not work related but I thought
> you might know a solution of the top of your head being a linux guru!
>
> Regards,
>
> Pete Kelly
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Mcleod @ Emley Moor
> Sent: 23 September 2003 11:20
> To: Mark Severs; Peter Kelly
> Subject: FW: [Wylug-help] linux dvb help anyone?
>
>
> Can you guys help out with this at all? or indeed pass it on
> to someone who can?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Macdonald [mailto:andy at greenhead.ac.uk]
> Sent: 21 September 2003 17:57
> To: Richard Mcleod
> Subject: FWD: [Wylug-help] linux dvb help anyone?
>
>
> Richard,
>
> I don't know if you find it in your heart to help some Linux
> saddo or even if
> you can (see below), but mention of Emley Moor reminded me of you.
> Thanks for the cartoon - how true of most computing engineering ...
>
> See ya soon, all the best,
>
> --
> Andy Macdonald
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 21 Sep
> From: Robin B Martin <rbmartin at dsl.pipex.com>
> To: wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
> Subject: [Wylug-help] linux dvb help anyone?
>
>
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> Hi
>
> I have just bought a DVB nova-t card for my linux box
> (slackware) and I'm
> trying (unsucessfully) to create a cannel conf file for the Emley Moor
> transmitter.  The card tunes ok, using dvbtune and some
> calcuations from the
> itc website, but the xml comversion library won't work so I
> can't generate
> the channels file.  I remember reading on the lists that someone had a
> channel conf file they offered to post, could someone please
> post a copy of
> this file, BBC4 does look very interesting ;)
>
> Thanks
>
> rob
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