[mythtv-users] LiveTV bails out after two seconds

[James Fryman]

It still seems like mythtvsetup isn't setup properly, and I keep wanting 
to come back to it. I too had a similar problem with this because of how 
MythTVSetup works.

The tuner must first be setup in the Input settings
Second, your cable type must be setup in the Video Sources screen
Finally, you have to link the two settings together in the Input Settings.

In the input settings, you can select the input type (Cable, Antenna, 
DVB, etc) and then when you link the settings together in the Input 
Settings, you should select the same type.

If you aren't able to figure it out, I should be able to help you 
further when I get home from work... most of this is coming off the top 
of my head ATM.

More information can be found here regarding this.

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html

You can also check your channel settings there. Let me know! Good luck!

-James
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Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
> On Friday 29 July 2005 17:21, James Fryman wrote:
> 
>>This error looks like your tuner may not have the channels setup
>>
>> > 2005-07-29 16:41:00.897 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0): CheckChannel
>> > failed. Please verify channel "3" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
>>
>>Try populating the database with Channel Information.
> 
> 
> I have already done that. The documentation is not entirely clear on how 
> to set the channel information, but I used ptune.pl to first dump a 
> list of PAL europe-west channels, and then using it to set each and 
> every channel and test them with mplayer /dev/video0. I arrived at this 
> list, which works well with mplayer:
> 
> SE19	NRK 1
> E8	NRK 2
> E10	TV 2
> SE11	TV Norge
> E5	TV Budstikka (ABTV)
> SE15	TV 3
> SE16	TV 4
> E7	SVT 1
> E11	SVT 2
> SE8	Discovery
> SE7	Cartoon Network
> SE17	Star / Showtime
> SE10	Info
> SE14	Disney Channel
> SE20	BBC World
> SE13	The Voice
> SE18	Eurosport
> SE9	Animal Planet
> 
> This is part of what mythfilldatabase has entered into mysql:
> 
> mysql> select chanid,channum,name,xmltvid from channel order by chanid;
> +--------+---------+-------------------+------------------------+
> | chanid | channum | name              | xmltvid                |
> +--------+---------+-------------------+------------------------+
> |      1 | SE19    | NRK 1             | 1.fredag.dagbladet.no  |
> |      2 | E8      | NRK 2             | 2.fredag.dagbladet.no  |
> |      3 | E10     | TV 2              | 3.fredag.dagbladet.no  |
> |      4 | SE11    | TVNorge           | 5.fredag.dagbladet.no  |
> |      6 | SE15    | TV 3              | 4.fredag.dagbladet.no  |
> |      7 | SE16    | TV 4              | 37.fredag.dagbladet.no |
> |      8 | E7      | SVT 1             | 6.fredag.dagbladet.no  |
> |      9 | E11     | SVT 2             | 7.fredag.dagbladet.no  |
> |     10 | SE8     | Discovery Channel | 44.fredag.dagbladet.no |
> |     11 | SE7     | Cartoon           | 41.fredag.dagbladet.no |
> |     14 | SE14    | Disney            | 67.fredag.dagbladet.no |
> |     15 | SE20    | BBC World         | 38.fredag.dagbladet.no |
> |     17 | SE18    | Eurosport         | 15.fredag.dagbladet.no |
> |     18 | SE9     | Animal Planet     | 10.fredag.dagbladet.no |
> +--------+---------+-------------------+------------------------+
> 14 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> Now, is there something wrong here?
> 
> 
>>WAF was low until I got my box up as well. It'll be worth it once you
>>get it going.
> 
> 
> Nice to hear :)
> 
> I can of course get away with one shell script for each channel, like 
> this:
> 
> #! /bin/bash
> # BBC World
> 
> ptune.pl SE20
> mplayer -fs /dev/video0
> 
> but I figure that Myth will get a better WAF rating.