Hi,
It looks like the DVB stuff is starting to stabilise again, so I thought I'd jump in and help test. I'm in Sydney, Australia using DVB-T with multiple Fusion HDTV Lite cards (and a single Twinhan card). Mythtv rev 7224. Sarge with kernel.org kernel 2.6.12 and DVB patches as at 2005-07-12 (this includes the infamous new frequency race condition fix).

I deleted my channels table and rescanned.  This caused two problems:

i) All my channels got new numbers, as they do every time I re- scan. This is somewhat frustrating as I then have to go through and edit the recordings table to match. I vaguely remember something going in recently about this, so it may no longer be an issue.

ii) There are three different DVB-T transmitters in Sydney. A list is here: http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?sectionID=22 (Postcode 2034). They transmit the same channels. If I do a full scan, then a) the channels table contains multiple copies of the same channel, and b) some of the frequencies are wrong.

To handle this I wiped the channels table again, set up the transports manually (just one transmitter, so no duplicate channels), and then did a full scan of existing transports. This gave me a good set of channels.

(Data for manual transport setup was here: http://linuxtv.org/cgi- bin/viewcvs.cgi/dvb-apps/util/scan/dvb-t/au-sydney_north_shore? view=markup . Interestingly, this data was different to what myth had previously discovered when I just entered the frequencies for the transports and left the other settings on auto. The system seems to be working better now - don't know if it is an update to myth or my more complete data entry.)

iii) None of my channels transmit guide information, so they all started invisible. This is actually an improvement for me, as 3/4 channels in Aus are basically duplicates. I just made the ones I wanted visible. Normally I have to turn off 3/4 of the channels rather than turning on just 1/4 :).

iv) I can record fine. However, I get no liveTV - the frontend shows a blank screen with no signal lock, and the backend freezes. Others want to use the box now, I'll try and post logs later. This sounds the same as Adam Egger's problem.

Be well,

Will        :-}

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