[mythtv-users] Two issues with the PVR-250 and MythTV

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Tue Jul 1 11:50:33 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 01 July 2003 10:41 am, NYCE, GREG wrote:
> Finally re-doing my Shuttle SS40G - using the PVR-250, am able to bump the
> (Athlon) CPU voltage way down, so the fan stays most quiet.  Very cool.
> Anyway, I can cat /dev/video0 > ./Capture.mpg no problem, mplayer the
> resulting file works too.
>
> Issue - to get a picture, I need to do a "test_ioctl -p 4".  Then, when I
> run myth(backend), and then shut it down, the channel has been changed back
> to "0" (thus, when I try to watch live tv, I get nothing but a black
> screen).  "test_ioctl -p 4" puts everything back right.  Am I missing
> something obvious?  What must I do to have it keep that setting?

You didn't set the default input in the second section of mythtv's setup 
program, or you may have bound the wrong input to your grabber data in the 
4th section of setup.

> Also - probably a stupid question, but I assume that MythTV can change
> channels using the PVR-250?  Does it need anything special (e.g. ptune.pl
> from ivtv) to setup?

Yup and nope.

Isaac


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