[linux-dvb] New Nova-T errors

["Edward Wildgoose" <Ed@Wildgooses.com>]

Hi,

I have now got a new Nova-T to replace my full featured card, but
unfortunately I'm getting a pretty scrambled picture which is "recognizable"
as the original channel, but has huge multicoloured mpeg chunks all over it
and lots of frame skipping (and big sound breakup) on most channels, and a
big lag in sound on the few channels that the picture is OK.  I have tried
using different PCI slots and also making sure that hyperthreading and all
the other junk on my MB is disabled (asus P4P800), but no difference

I *think* I am getting signal lock, however, it is not clear since only
dvbstream appears to work with this card.  tzap does NOT work and returns an
error message which says (from memory)

io_ctl: SET_FRONTEND: invalid parameter

...Is it normal that tzap would not work with a budget card like the Nova-T?

The Nova-T may be one of the newer designs and includes a remote control in
the box.  The chips appear to be: Philips TDA10045H and Philips TDM1316L and
I find that I need to use the tda1004x AND the ves1820 frontends to make it
work

From reading the list I was expecting to need to use the dvb-kernel branch,
however, I find that the card is detected by both the DVB and the dvb-kernel
drivers, but with identical results from each.

Can anyone please shine a little light on this!  I *suspect* that tuning is
failing, for example the exact freq in Hz for BBC one is something like
505833330, but I have to enter this in dvbstream as "-f 505833", and I have
an idea that this is not close enough for a good lock.  The reason for the
suspicion is that dvbtune is reporting fairly high error rates, and
dvbstream just gives a single number, but it is in the 500 range.  Does this
sound plausible?

Thanks for any help

Ed W



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