[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #9297: Cannot switch to or watch HD Channels with firewire STB in LiveTV, but recording from the same channels works fine

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 11/28/2010 01:19 PM, Erik Sejr wrote:
> On 11/28/2010 6:45 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>   On 11/28/2010 02:26 AM, MythTV wrote:
>>> #9297: Cannot switch to or watch HD Channels with firewire STB in
>>> LiveTV, but
>>> recording from the same channels works fine
>>> ---------------------------------------------------+------------------------
>>>
>>>    Reporter:  Erik Sejr<esejr@…>                      |           Owner:
>>>        Type:  Bug Report                             |
>>> Status:  infoneeded_new
>>>    Priority:  minor                                  |
>>> Milestone:  unknown
>>> Component:  MythTV - General                       |
>>> Version:  Unspecified
>>>    Severity:  medium                                 |      Resolution:
>>>    Keywords:                                         |   Ticket
>>> locked:  0
>>> ---------------------------------------------------+------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> Comment (by Erik Sejr<esejr@…>):
>>>
>>>    Replying to [comment:1 mdean]:
>>>    >   dup of #9177 ?
>>>
>>>    I'm not sure, the problem sounds very similar, but there's no
>>> mention in
>>>    that ticket of the odd channel changing behaviour. I don't think I can
>>>    attempt the workaround the reporter of #9177 has in his ticket as I
>>> only
>>>    have a single tuner at my disposal. I have found no way to work around
>>>    this beyond simply setting the show to record, then going and
>>> watching the
>>>    recording.
>>>
>>>    I will admit that I did not see #9177 while I was looking at some
>>> of the
>>>    other bugs.
>> If you set your starting channel to an HDTV channel (in mythtv-setup),
>> can you start Live TV and successfully change to other HDTV channels,
>> and after that to SDTV channels.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
> Hi Mike,
> I'm afraid not. I did the steps below in order:
>
> 1. Shutdown the frontend
> 2. Stop the backend
> 3. Go into mythtv-setup, change the initial channel to 700 (an HD Channel)
> 4. Restart the backend - STB is sent "7" "0" "0" at this time and
> changes channels successfully
> 5. Startup the frontend
> 6. Try to watch LiveTV - The STB is sent "0" "0" "3" as soon as I select
> live TV and returns to the SD channel (003).
> 7. LiveTV Starts successfully on the SD channel. Any attempt to change
> to a HD channel causes the same bug as described in the ticket.

Do you have a "Preset tuner to channel" specified with a value of 3?

It's somewhere in mythtv-setup.

Mike