[linux-dvb] Re: DVB-T no PID numbers on DVBTUNE

["Andy Coates" <andy@bribed.net>]

> I've recently installed DVBtune to uae with my Nova-T PCI 
> card. I live in the 
> uk and have correctly worked out the multiplexe frequencies 
> of my local Winter 
> Hill transmitter. 
> 
> I've got everything compiled and working and the card is 
> finding the singal at 
> a good signal level and locking on. However when I use 
> dvbtune -i i (with 
> correct qam etc settings) to try and find out the PID's for 
> that stream, it is 
> not giving me correct information. it is not display pid= but instead 
> ServiceID=. I've tryed using these ServiceID numbers as PID 
> numbers but they 
> don't work. I've noted that which ever multiplex frequencie I 
> dvbtune -i with, 
> it still comes up the same information i.e. channel names. Is 
> this some strange 
> bug ?
> 
> Has anybody else seen this problem and knows a way around it ?

I've seen this when it first tunes into the new frequency.  I had to run
the command again, and this time it worked.  From what I recall it
doesn't find the PAT/PMT immediately (which contain the PIDs IIRC).

Not sure if it is a bug, or just a feature.  It would be nice for the
program to keep polling the card until it does receive the PAT/PMT PIDs.

If you're just after the names/PIDs, you could try dvbscan (part of the
dvbsak package IIRC, though I can't remember where I got it from).  It
does a very similar procedure to dvbtune for the scanning of the
channels.

Andy.



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