[mythtv-users] Channel 5 and 6, Black and White

Will potsofdirt at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 1 19:10:09 UTC 2005


Recently I updated my mythtv box from FC3 to FC4. I
have a PVR-500 installed in it, and set it up using
Jarod Wilson's guide (except that I deviated a little
and used the current SVN build of mythtv and
mythplugins). 

On my previous install channels 5 and 6 did not come
in right (black and white, fuzzy on channel 6),
however after Googling the problem, I found a solution
by finetuning the channels by a value of 20.

With the new install I could not get this to work. I
have tried a whole host of fine tunings. I also have
tried using a different frequency table
(us-cable-hrc), however that ended up making all of my
channels come in like crap (black and white, with
crackly sound).

I am using Comcast analog cable on the north shore of
Massachusetts. I have also tried fine tuning the
channels to the IRC freunecies (2 MHz higher than
standard) with no luck. Any suggestions on things I
have not tried?

I also tried to install xawtv and tvtime to manually
tune the channels, however I was not able to get
either to work with the 30 minutes of time I had.

Thanks for any help.


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