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Phil Bridges
phil at gravityhammer.com
Fri Dec 17 20:13:25 UTC 2004
> Greetings,
>
> I originally posted this on the ivtv-devel list but there's not much
> activity there so I decided to try here.
>
> I just purchased some new hardware and am building a MythTV box based on
> Jarod Wilson's HOWTO at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php. I've
> gotten
> to the portion of the HOWTO, after installing the ivtv stuff using
> apt-get,
> where I send a test signal to the TV-Out of the PVR-350. When I do that
> all
> I see on the TV is snow. I moved on to the next step to see if I could
> record and view the signal coming in on my cable line into the FM
> connector
> and again all I got was snow.
>
> After digging around a bit on Google I found http://ivtv.no-ip.com and
> read
> the part about checking the tuner version on the newer cards...in case I
> needed to patch for a new tuner. I checked mine and it is "47", and the
> drivers and kernel versions that got pulled down from apt-get seem to
> recognize it just fine. So I'm not sure I need the patch.
>
> I'm running Fedora Core 3 with the 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 kernel.
>
> Anyway...I'm wondering where to go from here. I'm much more comfortable
> using and compiling things on OpenBSD (great for firewalls, not so great
> for
> MythTV). I've not used linux much but I imagine once I get used to where
> everything is I'll be alright. I'm just not sure where to start to try
> and
> resolve this.
>
> Do I need to be on a certain channel on the TV to see the test pattern? I
> tried flipping around some but never saw it. Do I need to set something
> on
> the PVR-350 that tells it to output to channel 3 for example?
>
> I'm posting the INIT IVTV section from the messages log. Any help or
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> ****IVTV Log Clipped****
What I would recommend, first of all, is to rule out setting up the
tv-out. Pluag a monitor in to your video card, and take out the tv-out
directions. That was, you can make sure it's ivtv that's giving you
issues, and not the tv-out.
Have you tried to record a bit of programming by dumping the video input
to a file? Can you view this? To change channels on the tuner card for
this procedure, use ptune.pl .
To view the 350's TV-out on a TV, your TV should be set to an input, not a
channel.
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