UK TV Tuning Problem. Help needed. (1 Viewer)

[andrewbarnes]

Hi, guys. My first posting

I am trying to tune my Compro Videomate 300 PCI card to my local stations, but the settings for my part of the UK don't appear in the dropdown list.

I live between the Sutton Coldfield and Waltham transmitters and receive better reception for different channels from both transmitters.

I searched the forums and have been able to find some settings for Sutton Coldfield which I have put into the dvbt.xml file as follows:

<country name="UK - Sutton Coldfield" offset="167">
<carrier frequency="634166" bandwidth="8" />
<carrier frequency="658166" bandwidth="8" />
<carrier frequency="682166" bandwidth="8" />
<carrier frequency="714166" bandwidth="8" />
<carrier frequency="722166" bandwidth="8" />
<carrier frequency="746000" bandwidth="8" />
</country>

Having done this, the card autotunes easily and picks up good reception for most of the channels, except ITV and ITV2.

I now need to add the tuning parameters for Waltham. Can anybody help me with these?

Many thanks

Andrew

 

[TritonT]

If ITV1 and ITV2 are the problem then it is Mux2 that is weak, its on 658000 from Sutton Coldfield (you don't need to put the offset in - they should read 634000, 658000 etc).

Mux2 is on 490000 from Waltham, so you can just substitute this figure for the 658166 you have in at the minute. Then do a rescan.

ukfree.tv is a good place for all this info.

 

[Sh4nn0w]

Hi,

Just thought if anyone else had problems with setting up channels that this might help. I was on the Hauppauge forums and found this useful tool; as I found previously I was having to do a full UK channel scan to pick all channels:

Scan Channels BDA

I assume it only works for hauppauge cards, not sure if its UK only or not, but basically it will provide a text dump of the output View attachment 1783.

From this you can get the correct frequencies. I realised that for me at least the UK Crystal Palace frequencies in the SVN dvbt.xml file where slightly wrong.

Changing to the following allowed me to receive all channels:

<country name="UK - Crystal Palace" offset="167">
		<carrier frequency="482000" bandwidth="8" />
		<carrier frequency="506000" bandwidth="8" />
		<carrier frequency="530000" bandwidth="8" />
		<carrier frequency="538000" bandwidth="8" />
		<carrier frequency="562000" bandwidth="8" />
		<carrier frequency="578000" bandwidth="8" />
	</country>

Hope this helps someone else.

Here's something I used a while ago. Link is outdated; new location is here. Judging by the feedback I got in the thread it should work with non-hauppauge cards as long as you have BDA drivers. Instructions here

Hope it helps

 

[andrewbarnes]

Thanks Guys

Thanks to both of you - I am now fixed up.

The scanchannelsbda worked a treat. Using the UK version made life much easier.

I was able to pinpoint exactly what my DVB-T card was picking up at the best signal strength and made the changes to the xml file.

Tuned a treat.

All I need to do now is work out the guide/grabber. Any thoughts?

Cheers

Andrew

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

EPG of DVB stream always worked for me.

Otherwise WebEPG also good, just remember to double click what you select, saves time.