[linux-dvb] Re: Question about inversion and DVB-S

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> 
> The frontend on mine can get a lock at 27500, but I'd noticed when I read the 
> values back from the hardware that it had actually detected 27504..

Sounds like the broadcaster has a problem.

> Another thing is that 11747000 is _really_ close to the lnb switch frequency 
> of 11700000.. could that have something to do with it I wonder?

The switch frequency is chosen somewhat arbitrarily. Does it work better
if you change your switch freq to 11750000?

> Is there any actual point in being able to specify the inversion then? It 
> sounds like we should always be using INVERSION_AUTO to ensure we don't get 
> these problems.

IMHO the intention was that the application finds out the actual inversion
during scan, so that later it can specify the correct inversion to speed
up tuning.

Johannes


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