[mythtv-users] Configuring MythTV on Fedora 11

[Chris Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of David Watkins
> Sent: 07 September 2009 11:40 AM
> To: MythTV Users List
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Configuring MythTV on Fedora 11
> 
> > [|] When I run that in mythtv-setup, although the graphs show strong
> signal,
> > noise, etc, the background log shows for each channel, "Timeout
> Scanning --
> > no signal" "Timeout Scanning offset 1 -- no signal" and "Timeout
> scanning
> > offset 2 -- no signal".
> 
> DVB scanning was always a bit of a black art as far as I was concerned.
> 
> I found I had to manually enter some of the parameters for one channel
> on each multiplex before it would successfuly scan, but that's going
> back quite a while.  The mythtv scanner has changed quite a lot I
> believe - certainly rescanning always seems to work OK.
> 
> I found the settings using tzap which came inside a dvbtest package.
> 
> I see that Nick has offered to give your dtv_multiplex settings the
> once over, which would be worth doing.
> 
> It's probably worth looking up which transmitter you're on so you know
> which channels you're expecting to find on which multiplex.
> 
> (BTW I just realised I've been replying to you off list.  Sorry about
> that - I was blindly hiting the reply button.)
[|] I have downloaded the dvb-apps package and tried to run the following:-
Dvbscan /usr/share/dvb-apps/dvb-t/uk-WinterHill > .tzap/channels.conf

The result of this was:-
Unable to query frontend status.

Is this an indicator that my TV card is knackered? Or is it something simple
that I have overlooked?
-- 
Chris Jones