[linux-dvb] Re: A success story in AU

[Jamie Honan <jhonan@optusnet.com.au>]

> I migrated to Australia from the UK almost a year ago. One of the things that 
> I brought with me was my Hauppage Nova-T budget DVB-T card that worked 
> happily in the UK under Linux with the old siemens_dvb-0.9.4-2002-04-01 
> drivers.

The nova is now on sale in Aus, whether it is the same I don't
know. I think there's now three different cards.

> The settings I'm using (taken from my dvbtune's dvb_defaults.h) are:

> #define HP_CODERATE_DEFAULT            FEC_2_3
> #define CONSTELLATION_DEFAULT          QAM_64
> #define TRANSMISSION_MODE_DEFAULT      TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K
> #define GUARD_INTERVAL_DEFAULT         GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16
> #define HIERARCHY_DEFAULT              HIERARCHY_NONE

I think you can set these to auto. The tuner seems to be smart
enough to work them out.

> close(fd_frontend); in dvbstream.c fixed the problem and now it works well on 
> the only digital channel here, ABC.

In Sydney I get all five channels OK. 

One thing that is a pity is that the format for tuning info for vdr
etc. isn't heirarchical. By that I mean something like :

ALL {
 Bandwidth 7Mhz
 TRANSMISSION_MODE AUTO
 HIERARCHY AUTO
 GUARD_INTERVAL AUTO
 CONSTELLATION AUTO
 CODERATE AUTO }

ABC {
   Freq 226500000
   HDTV { PIDS 512:650:544 }
   4 {  PIDS 2307:2308:548 }
}

SBS {
    Freq 571500000
    HD { PIDS 102:103:768 }
    DIGITAL 1 {PIDS 161:81:769 }
    DIGITAL 2 {PIDS 162:83:770 }
    EPG       {PIDS 163:85:772 }
    RADIO 1   {PIDS 0:201:782 }
    RADIO 2   {PIDS 0:202:783 }
}

For a blast capture some HDTV to disk and try displaying it. 
I can't do it in real time but the images are quite something else.

Jamie


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