"Jan Panteltje"  wrote in message
news:pum4ct$t1m$1@dont-email.me...

> If you however typed:
> dvbstream  -c 0  -I 2  -qam 64  -gi 4  -cr 1_2  -crlp 1_2  -bw 8  -tm
>   -f 562000  -o 8192 > /root/q1.ts
> then you record the whole transponder (the whole transmitter content for
> that frequency) to file /root/q1.ts

Hmmm. That command, with various values of the f parameter for the
frequencies of my transmitter's multiplexes, gives various error messages:

dvbstream v0.7 - (C) Dave Chapman 2001-2004
Released under the GPL.
Latest version available from http://www.linuxstb.org/
FRONTEND DEVICE: : Device or resource busy
Tuning to 490000 Hz
FE_GET_INFO: : Bad file descriptor
dvbstream will stop after -1 seconds (71582788 minutes)
Output to stdout
Streaming 1 stream

which look pretty fatal, but...


I do actually get a recording of a different multiplex: whatever value of f
I use (490 MHz is PSB3 - BBC1 and ITV HD) I always get mux COM7 (BBC News HD
etc).


That's with the command run under sudo.


I wonder if the problem is that the Pi is running TVHeadend (though not
actually tuned to anything) - might that be locking the tuner, and maybe the
last time I used that decoder I'd tuned it to COM7.

What I have established is that the Pi can indeed record a whole T2 mux
without getting its knickers in a twist.

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