[mythtv-users] cannot find tuner in mythtv

[Richard Molby]

Michael T. Dean wrote:

>On 07/09/2006 07:56 PM, Richard Molby wrote:
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>>catfish wrote:
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>>>>I'm following Jarod Wilson's Fedora MythTV documentation and I don't quite understand a step... during the MythTVsetup where you setup the tuner, is the tuner supposed to show up as a selection (as I am assuming from the official docs), or do I need to specify the device name myself, in which cae I have no idea what that may be, where do I find more info on this is it's available in the docs...
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>>>Well you need to know what capture card you have, set it up in linux 
>>>then setup the card in mythtv. Do you know what TV Card hardware you have?
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>>>I have a pvr-350 so I'll use that as an example. In Jarod's guide 
>>>section 10 is how to setup the capture card. With my card's tuner is on 
>>>/dev/video0.
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>>>I assume you are stuck on "2. Capture cards" (and have already done 
>>>General). You would choose "(New capture card)", select the Card type 
>>>(mine would be "MPEG-2 encoder card (PVR-x50, PVR-500)".
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>>Okay, I have a bt848 based card that I'm using to practice with...
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>Make sure you select "Analog V4L capture card" when creating your new 
>capture card.  Once you do--assuming you have properly loaded the card's 
>drivers--you should see valid device names in the list.
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Figured it out, when I pasted the info according to the mentioned
instruction there were many extra parameters not needed, I reduced the
pasted info down to the single line indetifying the card, and presto,
the info is prefilled for me.

Thanks for everyone's help.

R