[mythtv-users] My HDTV woes

[Steven Adeff]

On 4/3/06, Jesse Guardiani <jesse at wingnet.net> wrote:
> Steven Adeff wrote:
> >> 2.) The rate of MythTV successfully tuning any given HDTV channel through
> >> my AverTV HD A180 DVB card in LiveTV is relatively poor. I had to move
> >> this card to the second card in my mythtv-setup so my family could watch
> >> LiveTV reliably on my PVR 350. This had the side effect of improving the
> >> HDTV LiveTV success rate a bit, oddly enough. For some reason Myth has
> >> an easier time tuning the card from the 'Y' button rather than entering
> >> LiveTV directly, but it still fails now and then. I'm pretty sure this
> >> is just a problem with MythTV and ATSC cards in general, and I suspect
> >> you'll have this problem no matter how huge your CPU until the code gets
> >> fixed.
> >>
> >
> > Are you using OTA or QAM with your A180? I've got two running
> > alongside an HD3000 in QAM and PVR-150 and have had no tuning issues
> > with any of the cards.
> >
>
> QAM. mplayer and azap tune fine. It takes a little while, but it works.
> Myth doesn't. I haven't
> had time to check the backend logs for a rhyme or reason yet, but that's
> the next step.
>
> Do you use LiveTV? I haven't had any problems with actual recordings
> yet, but I've only
> recorded a few shows on that tuner due to the limited channel selection
> in my area.

I do, I have it set to go to my PVR150 first since it is connected to
my Digital Cable box, but one of my A180's is the first tuner when I
go to an HD channel, and with March Madness I've been watching the HD
channels live quite a bit recently without a problem. I wonder if its
a signal strength issue? I think Myth has different requirements for
s.s. than azap.

--
Steve