Hi Torsten,
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 03:02 +0200, Torsten Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i live in southern Germany and search for the correct
> settings for my PVR350.
I live in southern Germany as well, so maybe I can help you
with your channel settings.
> I installed all parts of ivtv and they basically work.
>
> When i capture something from /dev/video, i only get
> noise. I now search for the correct settings, i use
> ptune-ui.pl and i have some questions:
>
> The channels mentioned in there are of the form
> S-number, E-number, number, SE-number. I only know
> of normal channels C* and special channels S*.
>
> Is there a mapping from the names mentioned in ptune-ui.pl
> to the standard german channel settings?
For me the ptune scripts currently do not work, so after figuring
out how to set frequencies with ivtvctl (you have to multiply the
desired frequency by 16), I wrote a small python qt script for settings
the channels. Since I have no idea about how to scan for channels,
I decided to cut and paste the channel list from the website of
my tv-provider (kabel-deutschland). This ofcourse brought me
to the problems of figuring the correct frequencies for a given
channel.
For the frequencies in the S, SE, E naming scheme I picked a
file from freevo as source. The conversion to the S / K numbering
of kabel-deutschland I did by try and error, but actually the
first attempt worked, thus it might be, that there are no channels
with ambiguous naming.
But for short I use the folowing association:
K1 - K12 -> E1 - E12
K21 - K69 -> 21 - 69
S01 - S20 -> SE1 - SE20
S21 - S41 -> S21 - S41
I have not matched S01- S03 from freevo, but it seems to work.
> I use PAL, PAL-europe. Do i need to use PAL-europe-west
> or is the setting ok as it is?
>From the frequencie lists of freevo I took the PAL_EUROPE list,
but if available, I think the PAL-europe-west would be the more
appropriate one, but maybe they are similar in most cases anyway.
> Can anybody (from Germany) please send me his modprobe.conf
> for ivtv-0.3.0?
I have no modprobe.conf in my system, but I am not quite sure,
wether this means, that I have no need for this file currently
or wether Debian handles this different.
At least at the moment I have only placed ivtv in /etc/modules,
since everything is autodected and autloaded correctly.
The only problem is, that the eeprom must not be loaded before ivtv,
but if necessary you can at least unload it manually before
loading ivtv.
>
> Has anybody got some other hints on how to find the correct
> settings?
If you know python, I can send you my script, but it is currently
not configurable, not very user-friendly, and even worse since I
usually use my vcr for switching channels, it will probably remain
in this state.
Anyway at least the above details should be enough to deduce the
desired settings. For the frequency channel mapping you can use
the german wikipedia article for kabelfernsehen.
regards
Sascha
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