[mythtv-users] Timeout Scanning 0 -- no signal

Miroslav Suchý miroslav at suchy.cz
Fri Feb 1 20:53:56 UTC 2008


Short story:
I can not tune up any channel on my DVB-T card. Everytime I got error:
Timeout Scanning 0 -- no signal

More details for those who is interested in:
I have DVB-T card named "LifeView FlyDVB-T Hybrid". It works perfectly 
and I'm watching all available channel in Kaffeine. But then I wanted to 
try MythTV...

So I grabed MythTV packages from debian-multimedia.org (I have Debian 
Unstable BTW) which is in version 0.20.2.svn20080126-0.0. I set up 
everything according documentation. Mainly I done:

1) I created "Capture card" Type: DVB DTV Capture Cart (v3.x). Frontend 
has been correctly detected as  Philips TDA10046H DVB-T.
2) I created "Input source". I set "Listinings grabber" to "Transmited 
Guide only (EIT)" and channel frequency to default. In general setup is 
frequency set to europe-east.
3) In "Input connection" I conected this two together I choose "Scan for 
channels". Then I tried all options. Mainly I tried:
	a) change "scan type" to "import channels.conf" and put there full path 
to channels.conf file. Then "Next". It search for while (Signal strengt 
60%, SNR 99%) and it ended with
            Timeout Scanning 0 -- no signal
	b) full transport search.  Then "Next" and I got:
	   Timeout Scanning Multiplex #1 -- no table

In both case I got zero channels listed.

Even if I manualy create channel with values extracted from Kaffeine 
and/or scan, I got blank page in fronted with error "I cannot lock 
channel...".

Can you point me what I'm doing wrong? Or where is the possible error?

Some helpful information:
$ scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/cz-Brno       freq: 
10 min
scanning /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/cz-Brno
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
initial transponder 626000000 0 2 9 3 1 2 0
 >>> tune to: 
626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_AUTO:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE
0x0000 0x0004: pmt_pid 0x0400 CRa -- CT SPORT (running)
0x0000 0x000a: pmt_pid 0x1000 CRa -- CRo1-Radiozurnal     (running)
0x0000 0x000b: pmt_pid 0x1100 CRa -- CRo2-Praha           (running)
0x0000 0x000c: pmt_pid 0x1200 CRa -- CRo3-Vltava          (running)
0x0000 0x000d: pmt_pid 0x1300 CRa -- CRo4-Radio Wave      (running)
0x0000 0x000e: pmt_pid 0x1400 CRa -- CRo D-dur            (running)
0x0000 0x000f: pmt_pid 0x1500 CRa -- CRo Leonardo         (running)
0x0000 0x0010: pmt_pid 0x1600 CRa -- CRo Radio Cesko      (running)
0x0000 0x03e8: pmt_pid 0x0050 (null) -- Aplikace MHP (running, scrambled)
0x0000 0x0001: pmt_pid 0x0100 CRa -- CT 1 (running)
0x0000 0x0002: pmt_pid 0x0200 CRa -- CT 2 (running)
0x0000 0x0003: pmt_pid 0x0300 CRa -- CT 24 (running)
0x0000 0x0005: pmt_pid 0x0500 CRa --  NOVA (running)
Network Name ''
dumping lists (13 services)
CT 
SPORT:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:1025:1041:4
CRo1-Radiozurnal 
:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:0:4113:10
CRo2-Praha 
:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:0:4369:11
CRo3-Vltava 
:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:0:4625:12
CRo4-Radio Wave 
:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:0:4881:13
CRo D-dur 
:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:0:5137:14
CRo Leonardo 
:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:0:5393:15
CRo Radio Cesko 
:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:0:5649:16
Aplikace 
MHP:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:0:0:1000
CT 
1:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:257:273:1
CT 
2:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:513:529:2
CT 
24:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:769:785:3
 
NOVA:626000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:1281:1297:5
Done.

$ tzap "CT 1"
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
tuning to 626000000 Hz
video pid 0x0101, audio pid 0x0111
status 00 | signal a0a0 | snr 5656 | ber 0001fffe | unc 00000000 |
status 1f | signal 9e9e | snr fefe | ber 00000e7c | unc ffffffff | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 9f9f | snr fdfd | ber 0000322a | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 9f9f | snr fefe | ber 00000d94 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 9f9f | snr fefe | ber 00000d10 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 9f9f | snr fefe | ber 00000f26 | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 9f9f | snr fefe | ber 00000cfc | unc 00000000 | 
FE_HAS_LOCK


Miroslav Suchy
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