[mythtv-users] configuring HDHomerun channels

Dwayne B. dab at dab-tech.com
Tue Oct 17 15:26:13 UTC 2006


On 20:19 Thu 12 Oct     , Greg Woods wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 19:58 -0500, Dwayne B. wrote:
> 
> > You seem to be running into the same issue that I'm having with the
> > hdhomerun.  I also get an immediate segfault when mythbackend attempts a
> > qam256 record from the device.  I filed a ticket:
> > http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/2541
> 
> Oh, hell. After 8 months of frustration trying to get an HD3000 card to
> work and trying to get firewire to the DCT-6200 box to work, I really hoped HDHomerun would
> be the answer. I think my system is cursed; it will never do HD. The sad thing is,
> when I did manage to get a few snippets captured over firewire one time,
> they play back quite well in Myth, so if I can ever get any kind of HD capture
> device to work, I'll be in good shape.
> 
> OK, enough venting. Thanks for telling me this in any case, so I can stop
> beating my head against the wall now. I suppose there is still some hope that
> the HDHomerun developers will eventually find this problem.
> 
> Devs: if there is anything I can do to help (supply logs, try new firmware, etc.)
> I will do it.
> 
Greg,

If you have not already you might want to try running a current svn of
either trunk or the .20-fixes branch and try your qam256
tuning/recording again.  I'm running svn rev 11550 and all is well with
qam256 recording with my setup now.  The ticket linked to above has been
closed.

> 
> What is 8vsb? Is that OTA? 
  yup.
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