On Friday 19 Aug 2011, Stuart Morris wrote: > 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?
I did have a go at modifying the output from w_scan and appending it to my channels.conf but it kept choking on it (probably my fault!). What I did was go to the channel list from within vdr and created a new channel with the correct frequency for the HD mux. I think the only other thing I changed was to set QAM256 and as many things as possible to auto. I then switched to that channel. Shortly afterwards, vdr had picked up the proper channels and added them to channels.conf. All I then had to do was delete the fake channel I created. This was with vdr-1.7.19 (currently running happily with 1.7.20): don't ask me whether anyhting drastic has changed since vdr-1.7.15 but you could check dvbdevice.c to see if QAM256 is defined in it. My 290e doesn't seem to want to tune to anything but the HD mux if I use scan, w_scan, etc. I will try again from withing vdr later on this evening. It's not really a problem for me if it refuses to tune to a DVB-T mux and only the DVB-T2 HD one: I've got another 4 DVB devices for the DVB-T channels! :-) I've just installed the eepg plugin and updated my config files for tv_grab_uk_rt to include the HD channels. It might be time to seriously consider a new output device... Cheers, Laz
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