Digital TV via capture card

[Ext User(Whatcher?)]

So I took the computer to the house of someone I know who has a decent and
new aerial. They get good analogue there.

I hooked their aerial wire to my digital input and got a list of channels
that equate to various SBSs, Govt stuff, info and electronic TV guide with
bugger all on it and that was it.

No channels 10, 9, 7 or 2 as you get here on analogue. I check out what I
can find on a google search. Looks like, not a great distance from Sydney,
they don't broadcast here. They jump way out west and broadcast but here,
no. Strange....

I ended up doing a manual search from 1-819Mhz and it found nothing which
was odd because when I set it to "Australia" and it did an auto search from
170.5 to 816.5, it found the aforementioned shit.

Such is life. No digital worth buying a set top box to see or even trying to
pick up on this card.

My last hope is - do any of you know frequency list sites? I got SOME info
but I am not really sure if it is up to date or not. Thanks.

[Ext User(Rod Speed)]

Whatcher? <t.4.2@2.4.t> wrote

> So I took the computer to the house of someone I know who has a decent and new
> aerial. They get good analogue there.

> I hooked their aerial wire to my digital input and got a list of
> channels that equate to various SBSs, Govt stuff, info and electronic TV guide
> with bugger all on it and that was it.

> No channels 10, 9, 7 or 2 as you get here on analogue.

Looks like whatever software you used
doesnt have the default settings right.

> I check out what I can find on a google search.

The best site for channel details is
http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?sectionID=22

You should be using the basic sydney data, that's where
your analog and digital channels are coming from.

That shows 10, 9, 7 or 2, tho they obviously
arent on those channel numbers with digital.

> Looks like, not a great distance from Sydney, they don't broadcast here.

That is just plain wrong. Everyone in
your area gets the digital channels fine.

> They jump way out west and broadcast but here, no. Strange....

Its just plain wrong.

> I ended up doing a manual search from 1-819Mhz and it found nothing
> which was odd because when I set it to "Australia" and it did an auto
> search from 170.5 to 816.5, it found the aforementioned shit.

Yeah, you must be stuffing it up completely.

Put the actual channel frequencys from the above in instead.

> Such is life. No digital worth buying a set top box to see

Wrong.

> or even trying to pick up on this card.

Wrong again.

> My last hope is - do any of you know frequency list sites? I got SOME info but
> I am not really sure if it is up to date or not.

See above.

[Ext User(Terry Collins)]

Whatcher? wrote:

> I ended up doing a manual search from 1-819Mhz and it found nothing which
> was odd because when I set it to "Australia" and it did an auto search from
> 170.5 to 816.5, it found the aforementioned shit.

Perhaps it needed to "acquire" the signal in some way. Was fiddling with
a VCR the other day and you basically had to pause for a few seconds on
each channel before it determined if there was any signal or not. Even
just a slow pres, press, press was too fast.

[Ext User(Whatcher?)]

"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Whatcher? <t.4.2@2.4.t> wrote
>
>> So I took the computer to the house of someone I know who has a decent
>> and new aerial. They get good analogue there.
>
>> I hooked their aerial wire to my digital input and got a list of
>> channels that equate to various SBSs, Govt stuff, info and electronic TV
>> guide with bugger all on it and that was it.
>
>> No channels 10, 9, 7 or 2 as you get here on analogue.
>
> Looks like whatever software you used
> doesnt have the default settings right.
>
>> I check out what I can find on a google search.
>
> The best site for channel details is
> http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?sectionID=22
>

Update - got an antenna guy to look at the antenna here at home and he did
some adjusting and had to POQ. I now get everything digital excepting
channel 10. I found out it is frequency 219.5 but it doesnt turn up in an
auto scan nor does just setting that frequency reveal anything on band 7
which all the rest are on. That MAY be because the audio and video PID
settings are incorrect. No list seems to show that. Do you happen to know
that?

I had already tried that web site. Doesn't help with those PID numbers,
whatever that is. Thanks again.

[Ext User(Rod Speed)]

Whatcher? <t.4.2@2.4.t> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
>> Whatcher? <t.4.2@2.4.t> wrote

>>> So I took the computer to the house of someone I know who has a decent and
>>> new aerial. They get good analogue there.

>>> I hooked their aerial wire to my digital input and got a list of
>>> channels that equate to various SBSs, Govt stuff, info and
>>> electronic TV guide with bugger all on it and that was it.

>>> No channels 10, 9, 7 or 2 as you get here on analogue.

>> Looks like whatever software you used
>> doesnt have the default settings right.

>>> I check out what I can find on a google search.

>> The best site for channel details is
>> http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?sectionID=22

> Update - got an antenna guy to look at the antenna here at home and he did
> some adjusting and had to POQ. I now get everything digital excepting channel
> 10. I found out it is frequency 219.5 but it doesnt turn up in an auto scan
> nor does just setting that frequency reveal anything on band 7 which all the
> rest are on. That MAY be because the audio and video PID settings are
> incorrect.

That shouldnt matter with either of those.

> No list seems to show that. Do you happen to know that?

I got it for the channel that webscheduler couldnt find by using
what DNTV Live that came with the cards found for that channel.

I cant give you those for 10, it doesnt get here.

> I had already tried that web site. Doesn't help with those PID numbers,
> whatever that is.

The PID is the logical channel within the digital stream that is
that physical channel. Each physical channel like the ABC has
more than one subchannel, in that case ABC and ABC2 etc.

[Ext User(Rod Speed)]

Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Whatcher? <t.4.2@2.4.t> wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
>>> Whatcher? <t.4.2@2.4.t> wrote
>
>>>> So I took the computer to the house of someone I know who has a
>>>> decent and new aerial. They get good analogue there.
>
>>>> I hooked their aerial wire to my digital input and got a list of
>>>> channels that equate to various SBSs, Govt stuff, info and
>>>> electronic TV guide with bugger all on it and that was it.
>
>>>> No channels 10, 9, 7 or 2 as you get here on analogue.
>
>>> Looks like whatever software you used
>>> doesnt have the default settings right.
>
>>>> I check out what I can find on a google search.
>
>>> The best site for channel details is
>>> http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?sectionID=22
>
>> Update - got an antenna guy to look at the antenna here at home and
>> he did some adjusting and had to POQ. I now get everything digital
>> excepting channel 10. I found out it is frequency 219.5 but it doesnt turn up
>> in an
>> auto scan nor does just setting that frequency reveal anything on
>> band 7 which all the rest are on. That MAY be because the audio and
>> video PID settings are incorrect.
>
> That shouldnt matter with either of those.
>
>> No list seems to show that. Do you happen to know that?
>
> I got it for the channel that webscheduler couldnt find by using
> what DNTV Live that came with the cards found for that channel.
>
> I cant give you those for 10, it doesnt get here.
>
>> I had already tried that web site. Doesn't help with those PID
>> numbers, whatever that is.
>
> The PID is the logical channel within the digital stream that is
> that physical channel. Each physical channel like the ABC has
> more than one subchannel, in that case ABC and ABC2 etc.

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