[mythtv-users] Problems with video from Haug. pvr-500

Jerry Rubinow jerrymr at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 15:43:01 UTC 2006


On 1/24/06, Nathan A. Smith <nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 21:54 -0700, Nathan A. Smith wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have setup my myth box (an Athlon 1800+, 756Meg Memory, 100G+
> > Harddrive space, nic, and the afore mentioned pvr-500).  Everything
> > seems to run, but I only get static on "Tuner 4" and a very poor picture
> > (if I get one) on "tuner 6".  I have coax and composite cables attached
> > to the main card, I don't have the daughter card installed.  When I look
> > at "tuner status" it shows:
> >
> > tuner 1: not available
> > tuner 2: not available
> > tuner 4: not recording
> > tuner 6: not recording
> >
> > I followed the instructions off of mythtv.org and placed to tuner
> > devices:
> >
> > /dev/video0 & /dev/video1
> >
> > I also assigned video sources to both tuners (although there wasn't any
> > named tuner0 or tuner1 -- just 2 lines of tuner) and both composite
> > lines (both 0 & 1).
> >
> > What else should I be trying?
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated
> >
> > Nasa
>
> Ok,
>
> I figured some log data would be helpful (I hope), so here it is:
>
> ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> ivtv:  version 0.4.1 (tagged release) loading
> ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.12-12mdk 686 gcc-4.0
[snip]

The log data looks ok.  Exactly what Capture Card and Input
Connections do you have in mythtv-setup?

-Jerry


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