Hi I too have just acquired a 290e and I am having difficulty getting it to work with VDR. Apart from the flakey driver at the moment, 'seeding' VDR's channel.conf is difficult. I tried using w_scan like this:
w_scan -c GB -o 7 -I my_init_tune_file
My tuning file (UK Sandy Heath) contained 1 line like this: T 474166670 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM256 32k 1/32 NONE
w_scan produced this: BBC HD;BBC:474166670:I999B8C23D0M998T999G32Y0:T:27500:101:0:0:0:17472:0:0:0 BBC One HD;BBC:474166670:I999B8C23D0M998T999G32Y0:T:27500:6601:0:0:0:17540:0:0:0 ITV1 HD;ITV:474166670:I999B8C23D0M998T999G32Y0:T:27500:201:0:0:0:17603:0:0:0 Channel 4 HD;CHANNEL FOUR:474166670:I999B8C23D0M998T999G32Y0:T:27500:301:0:0:0:17664:0:0:0
However, VDR uses the first available tuning device when one of these channels is selected, which happens to be a DVB-T device and not the 290e DVB-T2 device.
Is this a problem with channels.conf or do I need to use a later version of VDR? I am currently using VDR 1.7.15.
Laz how exactly did you 'seed' your channels.conf?
Thanks Stuart
--- On Fri, 19/8/11, Laz laz@club-burniston.co.uk wrote:
From: Laz laz@club-burniston.co.uk Subject: [vdr] FreeviewHD success with Nanostick 290e To: "Chris Rankin" rankincj@yahoo.com, "VDR Mailing List" vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Friday, 19 August, 2011, 8:55
Hi Chris (and list)
I've just been doing a bit more testing with my recently acquired Nanostick 290e...
I added a fake channel with the frequency 618000000 MHz (my HD mux), QAM256, and everything else set to auto or random values. I then switched to it. vdr then picked up BBC HD, ITV1 HD, Channel4 HD, and BBC One HD.
It was clever enough to switch to the Nanostick for the HD mux because it's the only device that can do QAM256 (not sure if _only_ DVB-T2 includes QAM256 or whether my other devices are too old ot do it as part of DVB-T).
I get now/next EPG for the HD channels but it's encrypted (it needs a plugin to decode, from what others have said).
If I switch to BBC One HD, femon gives me a video bit-rate of about 7 Mbit / s and an audio bit-rate of about 150 kbit / s. It claims to have a signal strength of 70% but I'm not sure I believe that! By comparison, BBC One gives me something like 3 Mbit / sv video and 260 kbit / s audio, and signal strength of 70%.
vdr has now written out the new entries to channels.conf:
BBC HD;BBC:618000000:B8C23D23M256Y0:T:0:101=27:102=eng@17,106=eng@17:0:0:17472:9018:16516:0 ITV1 HD;ITV:618000000:B8C23D23M256Y0:T:0:201=27:202=eng@17,206=eng@17:0:0:17604:9018:16516:0 Channel 4 HD;CHANNEL FOUR:618000000:B8C23D23M256Y0:T:0:301=27:302=eng@17,306=eng@17:0:0:17664:9018:16516:0 BBC One HD;BBC:618000000:B8C23D23M256Y0:T:0:6601=27:6602=eng@17,6606=eng@17:0:0:17540:9018:16516:0
These are from the Emley Moor transmitter (I'm not sure how whether PIDs, etc., are the same between different transmitters but it might help someone.)
I'm not seeing anything on my tele' but I suspect my output device (a Matrox G450 with softdevice) can't go up to that high a resolution! Actually, I don't think it will currently play anything other than MPEG2.
I have a recording going from BBC One HD and there is a 00001.ts file which is growing rapidly.
I just played it back on a different PC. Mplayer output:
Playing 00001.ts. TS file format detected. VIDEO H264(pid=6601) AUDIO AAC LATM(pid=6602) SUB DVB(pid=6605) PROGRAM N. 132 FPS seems to be: 25.000000 Load subtitles in ./ ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->192000) Selected audio codec: [fflatm] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC in LATM) ========================================================================== AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... Unsupported PixelFormat 61 Unsupported PixelFormat 53 [h264 @ 0xeccca0]mmco: unref short failure Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [vdpau] 1440x1080 => 1920x1080 Planar YV12
Looking good!
As far as I can tell, it seems to be working.
:-)
Next step, get the epg sorted out...
Cheers,
Laz
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