Me TV

Failed to lock channel during scan

Asked by Janosch Peters

Hi,

I just grabbed the lattest revision from bzr, cause the version in the ubuntu reps are a bit outdatet. However I could not scan for channels with this version. I allready have a working channles.conf, but it seems like me-tv stores the conf data somwhere in gconf(?!). Im able to whatch TV using mplayer dvb://ZDF for instance, so its not a driver issue. I always get "Failed to lock" for every transponder when I'm scanning. Im using the Region "de/Muenchen":

30.06.2008 19:18:20: Processing line: 'T 834000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM16 8k 1/4 NONE'
30.06.2008 19:18:20: Waiting for signal lock ...
30.06.2008 19:18:21: Exception: Failed to lock to channel
30.06.2008 19:18:21: Failed to tune to transponder at '834000000'
(...)

I also tried tuning to ZDF via tzap, and it works:

zaphod@Zaphod-Beezlebrox:~$ tzap ZDF
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
tuning to 586000000 Hz
video pid 0x0221, audio pid 0x0222
status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 0005 | ber 0000ffff | unc 00000000 |
status 1f | signal fbfb | snr 00b9 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000020 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal fafa | snr 00b0 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000020 | FE_HAS_LOCK

Is there a way to import my existing (and valid) channels.conf?

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Hi Janosch,

You have downloaded a development version of Me TV (0.6) and it's really not ready for general use. The current stable version is 0.5.30 and is available on a different branch, try `bzr branch lp:me-tv/stable`. But you don't have to do this, I'm building the latest packages for Ubuntu in my PPA, see https://launchpad.net/~lamothe/+archive.

In Me TV 0.5 you can simply put a file at ~/.me-tv/channels.conf and Me TV will try to read it. Yes, in 0.6, channels will be held in GConf.

Thanks,

Michael

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

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