Freecom DVB-T TV USB Stick

[srdegnan]

Looking promising... has detected card ... so will play around a bit more!

[PaulLondon]

Been lurking here, and finally took the plunge this evening of downloading the Freecom drivers and GB PVR.

Success!! Kinda...

I've got channels listed, the EPG is sorted of populated (not completely), the GBPVR TV guide is viewable - but can I get any LIVE TV to play?? Nope... Just get a static screen filled with garbage.

Been scanning the manuals, and the wiki, to no avail - any thoughts?

Cheers!

[ArtificialIntel2]

PaulLondon

More experienced people will probably leap in to help you but I would check a) you have some sort of mpeg filter to play back through and b) if you have, then use graphedit (see my previous post for link) to check what the actual receiver name is and what the inputs and outputs are.

a) the filter is usually provided by some sort of dvd player eg powerdvd, windvd etc b) will allow you to put a section in bda.ini to match what you've actually got.

For more help, it would be useful if you zipped up all the logs and attached them to a message.

Regards
AI

[PaulLondon]

Thanks AI,

I do have WinDVD (and other MPEG players) installed on my machine - how can I check the filter though?

I've done the graphedit check, and the reciever and capture names all appear to match.

The Freecom stick itself is actually picked up by GB-PVR in config, and by scanning all 57 odd channels, I'm getting a whole range of channels identified and stored in the config screens.

However population of the EPG is "patchy" - I don't get complete programme listings for the channels, plus LiveTV only stuttering snippets of audio, without any picture at all or just static "corruption".

At work at the moment, so will post log files tonight....

Cheers,

Paul.

[ArtificialIntel2]

I'm at work too - just backing up so a couple of minutes to spare.

If the names in the graphedit match then it could be the mpeg filter (check in gbpvr config and logs) but it sounds to me as though the signal is not good.

WRT the epg, the timeouts for the OTA epg are too short for the UK. There are other posts with a fix. I use xmltvgui and download a fortnight's listings at a time from the RT site using the built in grabber. I can help with this but this is not the thread for this discussion.

Regards

AI

[PaulLondon]

Thanks - I'll check the mpeg filter, and search the other posts for the fix on the OTA epg.

Personally I'm not sure the the signal strength is the cause of the other issues - I didn't have any real issues with using the stick with the original Freecom bundled software.

Paul.

[pastyman]

Another UK newbie. Been following this discussion. I've got the Freecom DVB-T working using Freecom drivers. I can tune in a long list of channels, and at various times have had the EPG partially complete, but always failing to show ITV and many others I can get good pictures, which seem pretty stable. I don't know which epg option I shopuld choose in UK. None seem to be very complete. Suggestions please? I haven't started to look at recording yet. When I run Mux checker it says NO mux's found. I run XP SP2. Why no MS Mux reported? Other Mux's listed in this thread seem either to be no longer available, or link is dead. I would be happy to use MS one, but I understand I cannot record/playback without at least one mux being found. Any ideas?
**UPDATE** Found cyberlink mux in sticky pages. Also note that Mux checker doesn't see MS Mux. Doh! Recordings working now with cyberlink. Biggest problem now is EPG. Almost impossible to view channels without an EPG entry. I must be missing something here. Where to get best EPG in UK? Also can Freecom remote control be made to work?

[lou]

Hi,

Just recieved a revision 3 version of the Freecom DVB-t stick.

Just wondered if anyone could help me get teh correct settings for bda.ini?

Just downloaded teh cyberlink mux, still looking for a free video decoder.

Thanks in advance.

Lou

EDIT:

Got it sorted, had to append USB to the begining of device name in bda.ini

[ArtificialIntel2]

Pastyman

Remote control doesn't work with bda drivers and gbpvr

Try grabbing epg data using xmltv or xmltvgui. I do this using Radio Times as I'm in the UK - gives most complete data.

Regards

AI

[stell74]

hi, after months reading and testing, I have gbpvr working with freecom usb stick and freecom bda drivers but.... images are not proportionated: video is 20% minus larger then normal in X axis an 10% more in Y axis

any idea?

--modified-- passing from 4:3 to 16:9 is the solution!

sorry!