[linux-dvb] Re: Malvern UK transmitter

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 16:34, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 April 2004 15:19, Simon Kilvington wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > 	this may be perfectly normal, but I thought it was a bit odd...
> > > I'm receiving DVB-T from the Malvern transmitter, and the frequencies
> > > I tune in to correspond to the ones listed on the OfCom web site:
> > >
> > > http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/reception_advice/digital_trans_guide/sho
> > >w_tr ansmitter.asp-siteID=49.html
> > >
> > > but when I run "scan" from the linux-dvb-apps-1.1.0 tar ball - giving
> > > it "T 722166667 8MHz 3/4 3/4 QAM16 2k 1/32 NONE" as a starting point,
> > > it gives the Network Name as Sutton Coldfield. Also, even if I leave
> > > scan running for about an hour it keeps trying to tune into a bunch of
> > > non-existant frequencies (aswell as 5 of the 6 on the Malvern
> > > transmitter) and never tries to tune to the last Malvern frequency
> > > (718MHz) - so it never ends...
> > >
> > > 	got any ideas?
> >
> > Several of the UK transmitters I know of are misconfigured... it looks
> > like they've forgotten to update the NIT tables giving the frequencies.
> > e.g. Angus and Craigkelly had bad NIT tables when I was testing them last
> > year (although they may have been fixed by now).
> >
> > If you think that's bad, you should see the tables on Hotbird. Sheesh.
> > Certainly good if you want to bulletproof your table parsing code :)
>
> Well, if dvbscan goes into an endless loop it is a bug (probably
> already fixed in CVS).

Its not necessarily a bug in dvbscan; there is a transmitter on hotbird which 
has buggy NIT tables; it says there are two table sections when in fact there 
is only one. 


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