[mythtv] tv channel tuning problem

Isaac Richards mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:08:13 -0500


On Thursday 07 November 2002 10:53 pm, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> I'm having a problem with tv tuning with mythtv and am looking for some
> pointers on where to look to try and resolve it.
>
> Okay, Xawtv works great, other than the oddity that if I type in channel
> 45, I get 46.  This also shows up on Mythtv when I select a channel to
> record. I get the wrong show :-(
>
> But that's not the main problem. All the channels are off, tuning wise,
> most of the colours are washed out and you get that sort of "fuzzy"
> mistuned look to each channel. In Xawtv I can modify the tuning on a per
> channel basis, is there anyway to pull this off in Mythtv?
>
> Also as above, is there a way to remap the channels that get tuned in
> relation to what the epg shows?  Or something simple like telling mythtv
> that when I say tape channel 45, actually tape 45-1.
>
> I suspect this is a bttv driver issue, as I've seen similar behaviour
> (wrong channel) on my other mythtv machine.
>
> My main myth box has an ATI TV Wonder while my test machine has an
> Avermedia TVPhone.

Have you tried setting canada-cable as the FreqTable setting in settings.txt?

Isaac