Saturday 29 September 2012

MythTV lost BBC HD Channels

Ok, hands up all those that use MythTV with a DVB-S2 card for BBC HD in the UK.

Ok, who lost their channels from the 27th September?

Ah, not just me then.

As of the 27th the BBC have shifted the channels around again so, just like the fun last year when the BBC moved from DVB-S to DVB-S2 its switcheroo time again.

I noticed when the recording for the Doctor Who Semi-Finale' wasnt recorded, some digging around raised this article http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/bbc-hd which discusses the changes.

Since everyone assumes that all viewers are using self-tuning Sky or Freesat boxes (Virgin cable is a different matter since its received at the cable provider source not at home) leaving those of us with boxes that require a little more.....love with failed recordings.

So, in order to sort this out start up the mythtv-setup app and retune to


ParameterCurrentNew
Frequency10,847 MHz (vertical polarity)unchanged
ModulationDVB-S2, QPSKDVB-S2, 8PSK
Symbol Rate23.0 MSymb/sunchanged
FEC8/92/3

And hopefully you'll get the new channels tuned in.


1 comment:

Unknown said...

Thanks for the tip. I'd missed a few recordings over the last couple of weeks. Changing the details in mythconverg fixed it.