WinTV Nova-T frequency

robthebob · 07-22-2005, 06:27 AM

Hi, I'm not really sure how to tune this card in properly. I have the correct driver modules loaded and everything, but I've been following this guide:

usehttp://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html

and it recommends I use a file with the frequency for my local transmitter,
which is Emley Moor. There isn't a file provided in the dvb-tools download,
and I can't find the transmitter frequency as this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/tv_tr...rs/index.shtml

is a dead link and I can't find the info anywhere else.

This:

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/recep...=show_all.html

ofcom website seems to give quite good info, but still can't see the frequencies!

Please help!!

Looking_Lost · 07-22-2005, 12:35 PM

Here's the entries from my Suse directory for emley moor:

Code:

# Emley Moor, West Yorkshire
# T freq bw fec_hi fec_lo mod transmission-mode guard-interval hierarchy
T 673833330 8MHz 3/4 3/4 QAM16 2k 1/32 NONE

robthebob · 07-22-2005, 02:39 PM

You legend thanks!

I'm a little stumped about how to get this card going. Like I said, the modules are loaded, but the dmesg doesn't include any reference to loading the frontend, which I believe is required. I'm using Fedora Core 3 (possibly 4 I guess after the dist-upgrade), with a stock kernel, and I'm a little loath to build my own unless absolutely necessary as I'm a bit worried I might miss something it's autoconfigured for me in the current setup.

Any thoughts much appreciated.

Looking_Lost · 07-22-2005, 02:56 PM

I'm using the USB nova-t (there's a pci version I guess ?) only module I need loaded is dvb_ttusb_budget and all the other modules it requires are loaded automatically. Using plain SuSE 9.3 Kernel 2.6.11.

Progam I use is Kaxtv, others I've tried are xawtv4 and latest version of Kaffeine which has kaxtv integrated into it now. If you compile Kaffeine from source you have to have the kernel source installed and put a link to the dvb header files in your kernel source so that kaffeine can find them to include dvb support. Haven't tried myth tv.

Only other problem I've encountered is when I was using slackware and the appropriate devices were'nt being created for the tv viewing software to use, there's a script MAKEDEV.DVB that you can use to do that.

Apart from that I've found these applications a lot,lot better and funnily enough less prone to crashes than the supplied windows software.

tumbelo · 07-22-2005, 03:18 PM

Hi, I also have a Hauppauge WinTV-Nova USB box and I couldn't get it working on Linux. I haven't put much work into it and I might have overlooked something so I just ask if anyone knows of a way to do a frequency scan? Or if there's a way to make sure the thing is working in the first place? My problem is that dvbtune can't get any signal even though I picked my local transmitter from the frequency presets. I checked the frequency from internet and it was the same.

edit: The kernel modules are loaded when I plug it in.

Looking_Lost · 07-22-2005, 04:01 PM

Well, haven't directly used dvbtune, if you do YAST online upate it should get you xawtv4 and kaxtv. I'd try and configure it through one of those programs. If neither of them, at the least, see your dvb adapter then you'll know there is a problem there.

tumbelo · 07-22-2005, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Looking_Lost
Well, haven't directly used dvbtune, if you do YAST online upate it should get you xawtv4 and kaxtv. I'd try and configure it through one of those programs. If neither of them, at the least, see your dvb adapter then you'll know there is a problem there.

Thanks, I'll take a look at xavtv4. I use apt and Synaptic for package management and installing kaxtv would need xine-mad, which consequently wants xine-lib1 and xine-ui removed. I'm not willing to get rid of them.

Xavtv installed fine.

Looking_Lost · 07-23-2005, 02:05 AM

For the RobtheBob, you can maybe try this

Save the all of the settings text that I posted into a file called for example uk-EmleyMoor.txt then try in a terminal

dvbscan uk-EmleyMoor.txt

if you don't get any output that sort of feels right then there is definitely something up. If you do, you can do the command again like:

dvbscan uk-EmleyMoor.txt > channels.conf 2>errors.txt

If you've got xine installed

mv channels.conf ~/.xine/

startup xine, select dvb, then playlist and select a channel and press play

Of course it all sounds easy in practice

robthebob · 07-26-2005, 06:47 AM

Thanks a lot, I've now managed to get it going.

Only problems now are the remote control /dev/lirc device not being created and the xv overlay not working on the TV with my radeon 9200, but getting there.

Cheers!