[mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000: Questions from a MythTV newbie
Brandon Rogers
blrogers at ieee.org
Fri Jul 29 07:55:26 EDT 2005
Thanks, David for you comments. I found out that I had a bad firmware file.
I replaced it and the scan started working as it should. I do have another
question, though... Do the DVB drivers need a stronger signal than the v4l
drivers? I've noticed that when I use the v4l drivers with xine, I get
several (about 10) HD channels) in the area. My HDTV also receives about
that many. However, when I do a scan with the DVB drivers, I only get one
channel locked and tuned. Does that sound strange? Also, I do have a
pretty cheesy antenna, but it seems to work well enough for me right now.
What kind of antenna setups (rotating attic setups, outdoor stationary
mounts, etc) does everyone have?
Thanks,
Brandon
-----Original Message-----
From: David ellis [mailto:david at ellisonline.ca]
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 8:56 PM
To: blrogers at ieee.org; Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000: Questions from a MythTV newbie
I've got the HD3000 going on MythTV.
Typically if you do a scan for channels - it will find some. If its
not - sounds like an Antenna issue.
Do you have an /dev/dvb/adapter0 directory with lots of devices in
it? (frontend etc)
Are the permissions appropriate for the account your running myth under?
You mention tuning with xine previously - I'm assuming you mean
before you switched to DVB?
Can you post your dmesg output? Maybe your tuner is bombing out.
As I said - I've got two of these cards running well in the Toronto
Area - and I'm pulling channels from 40km away (From Buffalo) so the
cards do work with Myth. Just need to do some tweaking.
David
On 28-Jul-05, at 8:32 PM, Brandon Rogers wrote:
> I take the silence as meaning that no one knows what I'm talking
> about...
>
> Anyway, if anyone gets the DVB drivers working with the pcHDTV 3000
> and
> Myth, let me know. I'll have a few questions on how you set up the
> channels. (Like "How do you set up the channels?").
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brandon Rogers
> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:08 PM
> To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000: Questions from a MythTV
> newbie
>
> YEAH!!! I downloaded and installed FC4 and Myth liked my card with
> the DVB
> drivers!! (Thanks, Tom!) However, I still can't watch TV and I
> think it is
> because of the channel settings. I download only the "DT" channel
> listings
> from zap2it. They show up in the program guide, but don't show up in
> MythTVSetup's Channel Editor. I tried the Channel Scan, but it
> couldn't
> find any signals to lock on to, but I know there is an OTA HD
> signal in my
> area that I have viewing previous with xine. I remember a message
> somewhere
> about needing to modify the channel frequencies to get it to work,
> because
> Zap2it doesn't include the right ones. I just can't seem to find
> the note.
> Anyone have any tips for tuning to the right channels on the pcHDTV
> 3000?
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Tom E.
> Craddock Jr.
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 10:21 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000: Questions from a MythTV
> newbie
>
> Brandon Rogers wrote:
>
>
>> All,
>> So, I am starting to wonder if MythTV has support
>> for HD broadcasts on a pcHDTV. Here's what I've
>> done...
>> I've tried to get it to say that it was trying to
>> tune to channel 3.1 again, but I can't figure out what
>> I did. I used the DVB drivers, the atsc drivers, you
>> name it. MythTV doesn't recognize the HD side of the
>> card. I decided to jump ship from FC3 and installed
>> KnoppMyth hoping that it would just work. No again.
>> This time, luckily, it detected the card and set it up
>> correctly in the Card setup. However, when I try to
>> add an input connection to the card, there is no card
>> listed. If I were to add the NTSC side of the card,
>> then I am able to match my listings to the inputs on
>> the NTSC card, but not when I am using the DVB drivers
>> or the ATSC drivers.
>> I have tried almost every major Linux distro
>> (Debian, FC, SuSE, KnoppMyth, Ubuntu) and I can't get
>> MythTV to care about the card. I am positive that
>> this is because I am missing some paradigm that
>> everyone else seems to get. I've followed every HOWTO
>> with the pcHDTV in it and Myth still won't run HD.
>> Like I said earlier in this thread, I can tune with
>> xine, so I know it works and it isn't a hardware
>> problem.
>> Can anyone PLEASE tell me if they have an OTA
>> pcHDTV setup working at all and if they are actually
>> viewing HDTV output? (If so, please describe what you
>> did, not just a "Mine works!" Also, I am just stuck
>> on how to configure MythTV to work with the pcHDTV
>> 3000. So telling me how to get the packages with apt
>> or yum, won't help). I guess what I am asking is what
>> Myth is looking for because it is obviously something
>> different than either the pcHDTV drivers are making
>> available, or an inability of Myth to correctly read
>> the card.
>>
>> I'm really stuck, so if anyone has any suggestions,
>> I'm all ears.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brandon
>> --- Brandon Rogers <blrogers at ieee.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Installed FC4, followed Jarod Wilsons guide, even tho its for FC3.
> Since FC4 is using a 2.12 kernel, all I needed to do as root was:
>
> modprobe cx88-dvb
>
> Checked dmesg and saw:
> cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:07.2[A] -> Link [LNK1] -> GSI 3 (level,
> low)
> -> IRQ 3
> cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:01:07.2, rev: 5, irq: 3, latency: 32, mmio:
> 0xe3000000
> cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
> DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]).
> DVB: registering frontend 1 (pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV)...
>
> Checked the permissions on /dev/dvb/adapter1 (as adapter0 is my air2pc
> card) :
> ll -h /dev/dvb/adapter1/
> total 0
> crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 212, 68 Jul 23 11:44 demux0
> crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 212, 69 Jul 23 11:44 dvr0
> crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 212, 67 Jul 23 11:44 frontend0
> crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 212, 71 Jul 23 11:44 net0
>
> All was good on the permissions (note, you may need to modify the
> permissions on the dev if you dont have rw access to it, and it may
> not
> survive a reboot, so youll have to add it to your init scripts)
>
> Fired up mythtv-setup and was able to config the pchdtv3k card with no
> issues.
>
> HTH
>
> Tom
>
> P.S. Oh yeah, this is for OTA HD broadcasts and I CAN watch and record
> off the pchdtv3k card.
>
>
>
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