New User - Low Priority - HD folder structure puzzle

[leshay]

Hi

Ah that. That I do know about. Sorry, I thought you were talking about ALL user settings. OK, I will report back as soon as this recording is finished.

 

[leshay]

Hi

Well, problems did arise. After doing the scan as you said, when finished and back to live TV, I was getting a cycle of good normal picture/sound for about 30 seconds or so up to a couple of minutes, followed by a black screen with only "EC/PVR" in top left corner - this for about 20 or 30 seconds or so and then back to live TV - continuously, with only the time spans varying.

I then performed an Autoscan as that was what I did first time around, but unfortunately, that too displayed the same cycle of blank/live TV. I am about to revert to the original Terrestrial.xml

In fact, as I was typing this, it is in black screen mode with no response from the remote at all - now for about 10 minutes - I will need to do a switch off I think.

 

[leshay]

Hi
It was worse than I thought, am now in the process of re-flashing.

 

[abu baniaz]

Sorry to hear. Thanks for testing/contributing.

 

[leshay]

Hi
No problem, it is good practice for me - one way to learn a new box

 

[judge]

Hi

Well, problems did arise. After doing the scan as you said, when finished and back to live TV, I was getting a cycle of good normal picture/sound for about 30 seconds or so up to a couple of minutes, followed by a black screen with only "EC/PVR" in top left corner - this for about 20 or 30 seconds or so and then back to live TV - continuously, with only the time spans varying.

I then performed an Autoscan as that was what I did first time around, but unfortunately, that too displayed the same cycle of blank/live TV. I am about to revert to the original Terrestrial.xml

In fact, as I was typing this, it is in black screen mode with no response from the remote at all - now for about 10 minutes - I will need to do a switch off I think.

Highly unlikely any xml file would cause those issues.
Something else wrong, but a new flash should fix it.

 

[leshay]

Hi
Yes, I was surprised. I did exactly the same procedure as I had done with the earlier version. I just renamed the existing terrestrial.xml, copied over the new one, and restarted.

 

[abu baniaz]

What are you trasnferring with? I use Filezilla with Notepad++ (not windows notepad) as the default editor.

 

[leshay]

What are you trasnferring with? I use Filezilla with Notepad++ (not windows notepad) as the default editor.

I have Samba activated on the box and transfer the file via that. I didn't open the file at all (I did with the other version just to see what you had added - not that I understood it though)

 

[Joe_90]

The issue here, I think, is that @leshay is picking up one or more weaker transmitters resulting in marginal reception of some multiplexes which causes the picture to come and go on the TV. You need to establish exactly which UHF channels (frequencies) are appropriate for his exact location and scan only those. As I understand it, if a weaker multiplex is scanned first, then the lamedb is populated with the SIDs, PIDs etc for that group of TV stations. If a higher strength multiplex carrying the same TV channels is later scanned then I don't think they are populated in lamedb because the SIDs, PIDs etc are the same. I have that issue when I scan the Irish DVB-T channels. I pick up the weaker stations first and the stronger ones won't populate. I have to use the specific UHF channels for my area repeater in order to set up terrestrial reception properly. It doesn't matter whether you are doing an E2 scan (using the built-in xml) or ABM - you must specify the exact set of transmitter channels/frequencies which beam into your location. Anything else is going to result in less than optimal signal quality with consequent impact on the stability of the picture on your TV. Can't really do any detailed lookups as I am on holidays and using crappy wifi.

 

[birdman]

A good place for getting all frequencies for individual UK Freeview transmitters is:

http://www.ukfree.tv/txlist.php

 

[leshay]

Hi

Well, I had another severe problem (probably of my own making). Somehow, I started getting the rotating VIX image every key press when in any menu. OK, decided I needed a new re-flash, so, I figured I would try your Terrestrial.xml file again (I am getting used to the process now )

So,re-flashed, minimal set up to get Network, copied over your file, performed a shutdown and switch off (which I do not remember doing that time I had the trouble) - restarted and set all necessary settings including tuning.

Again, got all HD channels and all OK.

Just to check, since the above, I have shutdown/restarted several times and still all OK.

I *think* all is well, and I apologize for messing it up last time, and am currently eating my humble pie :thumbsup:

 

[abu baniaz]

Just so that you are aware, you can make a full image backup.
Blue> Vix > Image Manager > Green for new backup

Benefit of this is that you can save a fully working image. You can then tinker as much as you like. If it goes wrong, you can be back to the last saved image instantly. You can transfer to to USB should you wish. Have a read of the Manual that Rob worked so dilligently on for your experiments. (Link in signature)