Hi,
As I have received immensely good support from the posts in this forum, I thought I'd give something back, albeit small.
GBPVR does not have an option to choose Hong Kong, simply because HK is one of the countries that does not have fixed frequencies assigned to channels, but a bunch of "offset" (from nominal) frequencies with often similar but weird channel numbers like 49+++. There are 47 different sets of channels for each of the 47 locations, for JUST 4 channels.
You thus need to DEFINE another country, so you can choose it in the GBPVR config menu. I used "United Kingdom" (country Code 44) which is also "PAL I", like HK.
I found two ways of specifying the correct frequencies:
A. At first, I used the native application that came with my TV Card device to "Scan" and report the frequencies in my area (My TVWalker does it only to the nearest 25kHz), then you can either:
(a) MANUALLY input these frequencies into the Windows XP registry which saves frequencies in the following key using the format from Microsoft for Country Code (852) / Antenna or Cable (0 or 1) / Frequency (Number in Hz).
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\TV System Services\TVAutoTune\
OR
(b) Automagically use software such as described in http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utili...gAssistant (Freqshifter e.g.) to do the registry change step for me, having told Freqshifter the correct frequencies.
B. Calculated them from the Nominal Frequencies:
http://www.asiawaves.net/hong-kong-tv.htm gives a series of Channels, but no frequencies.
For GENERAL Hong Kong frequencies in various parts of HK I found two files:
1. http://www.ofta.gov.hk/zh/freq-spec/tvbnet.pdf (Chinese)
2. http://www.ofta.gov.hk/en/freq-spec/tvbnet.pdf (English)
So I made and used the attached spreadsheet to CALCULATE the offset frequencies based on the area you live in and the defined offset from the "Nominal Frequency".
If you live in HK, I hope you find this useful, and it gets you up and running faster than I was!
btw the fellow who wrote TVXB also lives in HK. (http://www.tvxb.com) (TVXB will make your xmltv.xml file).
NOTE that for the Broadcast Channels, the default TVXB ini's for HK do NOT have the channel number, just an ID. So updating the EPG in GB-PVR may throw up Channel 1 and 2, rather than the 49, 51, 53 or 55 you (may) have defined above. If you defined these as 1, 2, 3 or 4 you may wish to ensure in TVXB that they are also names as 1,2,3 or 4.
[tvbpearl.hk]
name=TVB Pearl
name=51
i.e add the last line (of the above three) to the ini file, then the Channels will match for sure.
Cheers
k.
[EDIT] Spreadsheet still available here http://www.tvxb.com/country/Hong%20Kong/...g-V1.0.zip
As I have received immensely good support from the posts in this forum, I thought I'd give something back, albeit small.
GBPVR does not have an option to choose Hong Kong, simply because HK is one of the countries that does not have fixed frequencies assigned to channels, but a bunch of "offset" (from nominal) frequencies with often similar but weird channel numbers like 49+++. There are 47 different sets of channels for each of the 47 locations, for JUST 4 channels.
You thus need to DEFINE another country, so you can choose it in the GBPVR config menu. I used "United Kingdom" (country Code 44) which is also "PAL I", like HK.
I found two ways of specifying the correct frequencies:
A. At first, I used the native application that came with my TV Card device to "Scan" and report the frequencies in my area (My TVWalker does it only to the nearest 25kHz), then you can either:
(a) MANUALLY input these frequencies into the Windows XP registry which saves frequencies in the following key using the format from Microsoft for Country Code (852) / Antenna or Cable (0 or 1) / Frequency (Number in Hz).
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\TV System Services\TVAutoTune\
OR
(b) Automagically use software such as described in http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utili...gAssistant (Freqshifter e.g.) to do the registry change step for me, having told Freqshifter the correct frequencies.
B. Calculated them from the Nominal Frequencies:
http://www.asiawaves.net/hong-kong-tv.htm gives a series of Channels, but no frequencies.
For GENERAL Hong Kong frequencies in various parts of HK I found two files:
1. http://www.ofta.gov.hk/zh/freq-spec/tvbnet.pdf (Chinese)
2. http://www.ofta.gov.hk/en/freq-spec/tvbnet.pdf (English)
So I made and used the attached spreadsheet to CALCULATE the offset frequencies based on the area you live in and the defined offset from the "Nominal Frequency".
If you live in HK, I hope you find this useful, and it gets you up and running faster than I was!
btw the fellow who wrote TVXB also lives in HK. (http://www.tvxb.com) (TVXB will make your xmltv.xml file).
NOTE that for the Broadcast Channels, the default TVXB ini's for HK do NOT have the channel number, just an ID. So updating the EPG in GB-PVR may throw up Channel 1 and 2, rather than the 49, 51, 53 or 55 you (may) have defined above. If you defined these as 1, 2, 3 or 4 you may wish to ensure in TVXB that they are also names as 1,2,3 or 4.
[tvbpearl.hk]
name=TVB Pearl
name=51
i.e add the last line (of the above three) to the ini file, then the Channels will match for sure.
Cheers
k.
[EDIT] Spreadsheet still available here http://www.tvxb.com/country/Hong%20Kong/...g-V1.0.zip