Calling all MP New Zealanders (Both of you!!) (146 Viewers)

[dbruning]

Bleazle, that's just what I was looking for, thanks. Talk about arcane!
mruane, good advice, I played around with those setting and ended up with LOF1 = 11300, Switch = 0.

So now I've got the DVBViewer working, and the quality looks great. Next step is to get MediaPortal configuration working.
If I click Television -> Capture cards -> <my card> -> Edit -> Autotune, I can configure some of the same settings as per DVBViewer, but not all. For example, I can set LNB0 and switch, DiSEqC = None, LNB = Ku-Band, Tone = None, Satellite = 45.0degreeswest.tpl - but there are no settings for symbolrates, start frequency, end frequency, and stepsize. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Darren

 

[mruane]

Darren, If you are in New Zealand the first satellite that you want is the Optus D1 bird at 160 E. If your selecting TPL files then you are using the inbuilt TV Engine rather than the new TVEngine3. Looking at the latest TPL for that satellite (160degreesEast.tpl) you will probably not get anything until you add these transponders to the file. Note also that if you are sharing a dish with a SKY STB then none of the V polarisation frequencies will probably work because SKY now use Horizontal. So you could change the V to H on the existing entries and try them in addition to the Freeview frequencies - it wont hurt. I would also change the satname entry so that you can find it easier in the drop down list i.e.

satname=Optus D1 (160E)
12456,H,22500
12483,H,22500

(i.e. Freq, Polarisation, Symbol Rate - note there is no provision for specifying the Forward Error Correction values)

That will get you everything on Freeview. If you then want to add the SKY channels (for EPG purposes - they are encoded so you cannot watch them, you will need to add more frequencies to that list.

That should get you started.

Cheers Mike

 

[handya]

hi, im from nz, i have 2x hauppauge 4000 cards, they can do hdtv, and they are great, i was playing around the other day and i could rec 7 channels @ once on just those 2 cards, from optus d1 freeview
i had a 150card, but i have to use it in my front end pc as its the only way to get an ir remote, i did get a usb media center one, but it did not come with any software or divers,
so i cant get prime now
but i can get all freeview channels and some auzzy ones,
is there away to enter in the pid? when scaning for a sat channel, as some auzzy ones have hidding pid?
cheers

 

[mruane]

Using TVEngine3 you can manually create a channel and the AudioPID and VideoPID values can be entered into the DVB-S tab on the Channel Properties dialog. If the Aussie channels are hiding the PID information then I do not know where you can get that information.

PS What was the Frequency, Symbol Rate, Polarisation and FEC for the Aussie channels?

Cheers Mike

 

[handya]

Optus D1 TP:12635 V SR:5100 for channel southern cross board casting (7)
Optus D1 TP:12642 V SR:6874 for Imparja, NITV, but has hidden pid's and stuff some dont know what they are some where on google

hi again,
i cant seem to see anywhere to add the pid when you add new channel, any ideas, will i need to update my software, im prty sure i have newest


how to i tune dvbt channels on my 4000 card, to i just plug in the uhf arial where the sat goes and then just scan?

does anyone know of a good usb ir remote, i got the hauppauge media center one but it did not work, i would still like to use my normal hauppauge remote,
i have a 150 in my front end that i use for the remote, but i want 2 use my 150 in my backend server so i can get prime, i cant use the analouge on the 4000 card, wont tune prime, some times tunes 1,2,3,4

btw there is a new freeview channel out, cue, so dont 4get to rescan,

 

[mruane]

Great, thanks. Unfortunately I share a Sat dish with a SKY STB so I am stuck with only Horizontal polarisation. Pity.

For DVB-T you plug in the antenna cable into the standard antenna socket on the back of the HVR4000 not the screw thread Satellite socket. DVB-T shares the tuner with Analog so it gets its input from the standard UHF socket.

The frequencies you tune are defined in the DVBT.XML file. It depends on where you are for the actual frequences. In my case I use Kaukau in Wellington.

Cheers Mike

 

[handya]

thanks, just one more question, can dvb-t go thu a standard vhf/uhf splitter?

and is anyone in aucks getting dvb-t? and what are the settings? i have
<country name="New Zealand - Auckland (trials)">
<carrier frequency="698000" bandwidth="8" />

 

[dbruning]

Thanks Mike. I have made those changes to the .tpl file, and when I autotune in MP configuration I can see that it's scanning those 2 frequencies (and has picked up the 'Optus D1' satname from the file) - but I still don't get any channels. The 'signal strength' and 'signal quality' meters on the autotune tab don't register anything at all. I assume the channels should appear in the 'TV channels' list after the scan? Anything else I should be looking at?
Thanks, Darren.

 

[mruane]

Darren, unfortunately I do not use TVE2 (i.e. the built in TV Tuner), so I am not familiar with the setup options in TVE2 and I know the setup is different to TVE3. Why not download TVEngine3 and try that.

Also review McRae's site at http://mcraenz.googlepages.com/ he has a lot of information there about configuration of TVE3. TVE3 is a pretty useful addition to Media Portal because it allows client mode on any other PC on your network, plus it allows you to record multiple channels from the same transponder with just one tuner. You might find that you can get the whole thing up and running much faster because of the support available for TVE3 (eg the pages McRae produced and others).

Give it a go, I'm certain you will prefer it.

Handya: I have my DVB-T Antenna feed going through a couple of splitters and through a SKY STB so yes a standard UHF splitter should not be a problem. Remember that each splitter introduces about 3-5db of loss so eventually you may need a signal amplifier if you split too many times. However one splitter should not be a problem.

Cheers Mike

 

[dbruning]

mike: Understood, I'll give TVE3 a try. I was going to get there eventually, just thought it would be easier to get TVE2 going first (no client-server issues to worry about) - but if there's more support for, or usage of, TVE3 then I'll get stuck into that.
Much appreciated,
Darren.