[vlc] KNC-1 Astra 19.2 tuning problem

[Christophe Massiot]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007, Zoilo Gomez wrote:
> I have a very strange problem ...
> 
> Using vlc (0.8.6c) with a KNC1 TV-Star DVB-S card on Astra1 (19E2) , I 
> cannot lock to any channels in the lower band (below 11.700 GHz), and 
> also not to any channel above 12.500 GHz (approximately). All 
> transponders in between are fine. Also all transponders on Hotbird, 
> Astra2 and Astra3 are without problem. Only the lower band, and the 
> upper half of the upper band on Astra1 are giving me problems.
> 
> However szap has no problem to lock to any of these channels on Astra 1 !
> 
> Even more strange: whenever I use szap to lock to the channel, then quit 
> and quickly (within a few seconds) start vlc on the same channel, then 
> it works fine !
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what could possibly be causing this ?? Why is 
> vlc having locking problems, where szap does not?

Are you supplying VLC with the correct symbol rate
(--dvb-srate=22000000) ?
-- 
Christophe Massiot.