[mythtv-users] Ideas to diagnose one faulty DVB-T adapter (on a dual adapter USB stick)

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Tue Oct 30 19:48:28 UTC 2012


On 30/10/12 19:19, John Pilkington wrote:

> Ok, maybe slightly inappropriate.  If it wasn't helpful I'm sorry.
> People do get into unnecessary difficulties with DVB tuning and the
> choice of tool looked perhaps a little old-school.  Do you have a more
> useful suggestion?
>
> If one section is dead it should perhaps be disabled.  If it has  a
> faulty PID filter, or, more likely, one with a numerically small
> hardware limit, it's unlikely to be fully satisfactory today.  Perhaps
> consult the linuxtv list of devices to see if it does have a known
> hardware limit, quite likely on an oldish device.  I doubt that tools
> would be available to cure the problem, and new near-equivalents aren't
> expensive.
>

After Googling the device I see it is claimed to pass the entire stream; 
no filtering.  No further suggestions.




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