Tuner Frequency ?

[zb1]

WHurlston,

1- I noticed that there is a Vtype in the tuning string that appeared on one of the channels, what is this? and are there more types than the ones you gave above that could appear? what are they?

2- are the frequencies the same from tuner to tuner or are they different? I want to see if its possible to ask the community for the frequency string if I can't find it.

3- there are some channels that I us that are marked as encrypted but clearly are not. Why?

4- I just added a new channel 136 to each tuner line using the GBPVR config. (I edited each tuner line and clicked on the add channel button). It has assigned channels 713 and 714 (one for each tuner instead of just one) to the channel list instead of just one entry for channel 136. How do I fix this?

5- the tv guide in PVR use to display a yellow line from the arrows at the top and bottom of the tv guide box. It's no longer there. How do I get it back?

6- is there documentation that explains what the variables in config.ini are? I want to make sure that if I change one its for what I think it should and not for something else.

Once again, thanks for your help and for fixing my sound problem.


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[whurlston]

WHurlston,

1- I noticed that there is a Vtype in the tuning string that appeared on one of the channels, what is this? and are there more types than the ones you gave above that could appear? what are they?

There should be no VTYPE in ATSC and QAM tuning strings. All QAM/ATSC channels are MPEG2. The VTYPE is used in other parts of the world where they can have H.264 broadcasts. This problem is related to the wrong video pid and sub will be looking into it when he gets back home. He is currently out of the country at the moment and away from his development machine.

2- are the frequencies the same from tuner to tuner or are they different? I want to see if its possible to ask the community for the frequency string if I can't find it.

Some tuners will tune the exact frequency requested and therefore require the use of the center channel frequency (about half way between the video and audio carrier frequencies). Other tuners (Hauppauge and Silicondust for example) will automatically add 1.75 Mhz to the requested frequency in order to tune the center frequency. It all depends on how the drivers were coded.

3- there are some channels that I us that are marked as encrypted but clearly are not. Why?

4- I just added a new channel 136 to each tuner line using the GBPVR config. (I edited each tuner line and clicked on the add channel button). It has assigned channels 713 and 714 (one for each tuner instead of just one) to the channel list instead of just one entry for channel 136. How do I fix this?

When you add channels manually, they are added only for that tuner. So if you add a channel to two tuners, GB-PVR considers them two separate channels. They should really be added to your EPG source.

5- the tv guide in PVR use to display a yellow line from the arrows at the top and bottom of the tv guide box. It's no longer there. How do I get it back?

This would be a question for sub when he's back in town. I'm not sure if it's still supported even if you added it back to the skin file. I never even noticed it to be completely honest.

6- is there documentation that explains what the variables in config.ini are? I want to make sure that if I change one its for what I think it should and not for something else.

Not really. There are various posts on the forum where someone has asked or posted the meaning of almost every option though. Most are self explanatory. Just make sure to use Notepad and not Wordpad to edit the config.xml and always make a backup first.

Once again, thanks for your help and for fixing my sound problem.

No problem.