OT: Digital TV decoder USB sticks

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Boaz Rymland wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I bought this toy today.
> I'm glad to say that it worked out of the box in Ubuntu 9.04 - or at  
> least it appears so:
> Kaffeine is happy with it, I do have /dev/dvb/ devices and dmesg  
> seems to report that the drivers are ok. I bet the following kernel  
> drivers are related: dvb_usb_af9015, af9013, dvb_usb.
> Scanning for channels works as well but that's where the party ends  
> - at least where I live (in Petach Tikva) I get zero channels  
> reception.
> I switched to Windows, installed the little thingy + its software  
> and verified that indeed its a matter of reception - no channels on  
> Windows too :-(  .
>
> If you need more info let me know.



This is the information I got from Guy with my annotations about  
frequencies on the bottom:


y at golem3:~$ cat /home/guy/channels.conf

CH2 
: 
514000000 
:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4 
:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16 
:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:4112:1
CH10 
: 
514000000 
:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4 
:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16 
:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE:513:4113:2
CH1 
: 
514000000 
:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4 
:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16 
:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE:514:4114:3
CH33 
: 
514000000 
:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4 
:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16 
:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE:515:4115:4
CH99 
: 
514000000 
:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4 
:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16 
:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE:516:4116:5




followed this: http://davidwinter.me.uk/articles/2008/02/08/watching-freeview-dvb-t-tv-with-vlc-player-on-ubuntu/

vlc dvb-t://frequency=514000000:bandwidth=8:inversion=0
does it all.

(this is for the center of israel, for the north and south the  
frequency is
538000000

Geoff.

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