Tuner will only record one channel (was Re: [mythtv-users] Re: No sound after apt-get upgrade)

[Andy Rabin]

I think I've tracked this down, but if anybody can confirm that my
theory is right, or have any suggestions, I'd appreciate it.  This
afternoon, while I was busy trying to get my sound working, I rebooted
my computer while my wife had a show scheduled to record.  That show
was on channel 51.  This evening, trying to track down the problem, I
switched the priorities between my two cards, forcing myth to record
off of card 0, instead of 1.  When it is recording off card 0, live tv
is playing through card 1.  In live tv on card 1, when I change the
channel, I still only see what is on channel 51.  Is my tuner card
broken?  Or could something else be causing this?

Thanks,
Andy


On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:11:11 -0600, Andy Rabin <andy.rabin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Adding
> 
> alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
> 
> to my /etc/modules.conf now seems to give me sound all the time, so
> I'm almost back to a perfect state for my system.  The only problem I
> have left is that no matter what channel I set the system to record,
> it only records channel 51.  I've tried several different channels
> now, and no matter what, it's always the same channel.  Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:28:09 -0600, Andy Rabin <andy.rabin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, I fixed the sound problem that was system wide, and now have
> > sound both out of mythtv and in it.  Unfortunately, the sound isn't
> > always there in live tv, though changing channels seems to reassert
> > the sound on the stream.  I haven't had a chance to try the
> > msp3400-ivtv fix yet, but I will post after I have a chance to do
> > that.  One strange thing I've noticed though...since upgrading, all
> > the test recordings I've done have recorded channel 51, no matter what
> > channel I'm trying to record.  This also seems to have started with my
> > upgrade last night.  Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:28:04 -0800, William Lott
> > <mythusersmail at wlott.org> wrote:
> > > Andy Rabin wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:03:06 -0600, Andy Rabin <andy.rabin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>I've been using my system for a few months now.  After finally fixing
> > > >>the video quality, the recordings timing got goofy on me.  An hour
> > > >>long show recorded would show that it was an hour and a half or
> > > >>longer...but actually play the hour (less commercials : )  So I
> > > >>figured before mailing the list, I'd make sure everything was upgraded
> > > >>and give it a reboot.  Now, I suddenly have no sound!!!  I'm pretty
> > > >>sure its a config that got screwed up somewhere, but I don't know
> > > >>where to look.  Recordings and live tv have the same problem, even
> > > >>recordings that were made previously that i've seen with sound!!!
> > > >>
> > > >>Please help!!  Let me know what I should post info wise here, and I'll
> > > >>be more than happy to.
> > > >>
> > > >>System is FC1, running 2 PVR-250's, and lots of old hardware, but it
> > > >>all worked before!!
> > > >>
> > > >>Thanks in advance,
> > > >>Andy
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I realize this probably isn't the right list for this now, but after
> > > > more digging around with the system today, it appears that my whole
> > > > install is pretty screwed up.  The hat menu doesn't have any entries
> > > > in it, and kcontrol has nothing in it for me to modify.  I'm not sure
> > > > what happened, but I'd be happy to post any logs or send this to a
> > > > different list if someone could just point me in the right direction!!
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Andy
> > > >
> > >
> > > This sounds a lot like some of the problems I've had.  The KDE menus
> > > came back on their own after a restart, so I have no idea if I actually
> > > had to do something to fix them.  The no-sound issue turned out to be
> > > that the new ivtv driver needs a special version of the msp3400 driver
> > > named msp3400-ivtv.  Put:
> > >
> > >         alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
> > >
> > > in your modules.conf and check the logs for 'msp34xx: ivtv version'.  (I
> > > can't access my mythtv box right now, so I can't check for the exact
> > > message.)
> > >
> > > Oh wait, I just noticed that you said that even old recording has no
> > > sound.  You probably have some other sound problem then -- I was getting
> > > some recordings with sound and some without.
> > >
> > > Hmm...  I guess I don't have anything helpful to add afterall.  Sorry
> > > about that.  But you'll need that alias thing once you get your other
> > > problems figured out.
> > >
> > > Good luck.
> > >
> > > -William
> > >
> > >
> >
>