[mythtv-users] PVR-250 records only one channel

[Michael T. Dean]

Tom Lichti wrote:

> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> Tom Lichti wrote:
>>
>>> I would also verify that the tuner type is set correctly. I had a 
>>> similar problem where if I manually set the tuner type, I could see 
>>> one channel, but that was it. If I let it auto-detect and set the 
>>> tuner, it works flawlessly.
>>> ...
>>> In my modules config I have:
>>>
>>> options ivtv tuner=-1,-1 debug=1
>>> ...
>>> I can probably remove the debug, since everything works. 
>>
>> As a matter of fact, you can (should) remove the tuner options since 
>> the default is to autodetect the tuner (and, since -1 is not a valid 
>> tuner type, -1 tells it to autodetect).  If you also remove the 
>> debug, you should just remove the options line.
>
> Ah, that makes sense. I'll have to try that. Why is it that every 
> guide/how-to says to force it to type 2? Is the auto-detect stuff 
> fairly recent?

Yeah.  Autodetection was added around 0.1.10-pre2-ck85 (or so).  Since 
there hasn't been a "stable" release since then, all the documentation 
that exists is currently written for 0.1.9 (and, in most cases not well 
written since there are over 50 tuners usable through the Linux tuner 
driver and Hauppauge uses a great number of them in their cards--meaning 
2 is very seldom correct).

However, since the pre-release 0.2 versions are actually more stable 
(and far more feature-filled) than the "stable" 0.1.9, it doesn't really 
make sense to use the "stable" version anymore.  Eventually, the 
quantity of documentation that was written for the 0.2+ versions will 
exceed that of the 0.1.9 versions, so people will be more likely to find 
the new info.

Mike