Leadtek WinFast PxDVR3200 H

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From: Robert Golding [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, 25 January 2009 8:42 a.m.
To: Wayne and Holly
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Leadtek WinFast PxDVR3200 H

2009/1/25 Wayne and Holly <[email protected]>:

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Hello list,
I have a Leadtek WinFast PxDVR3200 H that I am attempting

to utilise

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with MythTV. The Wiki site states that experimental support exists for the DVB side and that "Successful tuning of typical Australian channels" has been achieved. I am able to create a channels.conf (attached) using scan, and am then able to tune using mythtv-setup, however none of these channels are viewable with the

mythfrontend due

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to it being unable to gain a lock.

Relevant bits and pieces:

scan, using the latest it-Varese file scan is able to tune

to three of

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the five transponders as per the attached file "scan". It

also scans

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on 800000000Hz but I have no idea why.

The file leadtek.dmesg contains the relevant info from dmesg (and messages.log) regarding the initialisation of the card

itself. There

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are no error messages at any time (that I am aware of)

despite all of

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my fiddling about.

Of the three transponders that are in my channels.conf

file, the third

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one
(618000000Hz) causes an error when tuning in mythtv-setup.

It states that

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channels are found but the tsid is incorrect. As such,

only the first two

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successful transponders (706000000 and 602000000) are tuned by myth.

When I attempt to view the tuned channels, myth is unable to gain a lock on any of them. The reported signal strength is about 58% and the S/N varies between 3 and 3.8dB. I am able to tune

DVB-T channels

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on my TV using the same aerial cable but am wondering if signal strength is an issue.

I am running it on Kubuntu with a 2.6.24-19 kernel, I have a recent version of the v4l-dvb tree (approx Nov 08) and am using firmware version 2.7. I haven't updated the drivers or the firmware

as I have

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no reason to believe there are changes that would effect

this. That

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said, if someone thinks there has been changes I will get

straight on

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it.

I am more than happy to provide more debugging info if required (if you are willing to tell me where else to look) and

appreciate any help

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provided.

Cheers
Wayne

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I have the same card, so this might help.
I was experiencing many frontend problems when I came across a references in the list to a third party firmware files. It explained that you had to download and extract the firmware within to the firmware dir.

I cannot remember exactly what, where and which, however, if you'd like, I can email the extracted fw.tar.bz2(1.5MB) and ivtv.firmware.tar.bz2(123KB) files to you. Then just extract the contents to your firmware dir (on Gentoo /lib/firmware).

Anyway, long story short, that fixed it for me. Now I'm just waiting to be able to use the FM radio.

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Regards,	Robert