[mythtv-users] Can't Get pcHDTV-5500 To Work With MythTV

Bob Sully rcs at malibyte.net
Tue Jul 3 05:00:38 UTC 2007


Donald J. Maddox wrote:
> Bob Sully wrote:
>>> The fact that it works fine with mplayer and tvtime suggests that it is
>>> not a driver problem.  The card WORKS - both digital and analog parts.
>>> It just doesn't work with MythTV for some reason.
>>>
>>> I installed from the Fedora Core 6 RPMs, I did select DVB DTV Capture
>>> card (v3.x) in the configuration
>>>
>>
>> Just got back from three days out of town with no Internet access, so
>> didn't get a chance to reply sooner.
>>
>> If both sides of the card work on mplayer and tvtime, it's not a driver
>> problem.
>>
>> I have two 5500s in my combined BE/FE system running Mandriva 2007
>> x86-64.
>>  Both sides of both cards work fine (though I admit that the analog
>> picture quality isn't as good as I'd like).  A previous poster is
>> correct
>> - you set it up as a DVB card and then set up the analog portion under
>> "analog settings" in Mythtv-setup.
>>
>> Now, what took me the longest time to figure out is that you need to set
>> up two different sets of channels, one for each side (and being in the
>> US,
>> I had to set up two Zap2It accounts to grab their respective data).
>> Once
>> I had that set up, I was good to go.
>>
>> If need be (I'm not on that machine at the moment), I'd be happy to list
>> my "analog settings" if anyone wishes.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
> What kernel version and MythTV versions are you running, just out of
> curiousity?
>
> I have configured my card as a single DVB card, and I'm sure the analog
> part is configured correctly as well - I can't scan channels at all on
> the DVB side, but the analog channels scan fine; however, MythTV refuses
> to tune them beyond the initial successful scan.
>
> I can't even import a known-good channels.conf file that works fine with
> mplayer - not only is MythTV unable to tune the channels, it also seems
> to misparse the channels.conf file, as the number of channels it tries
> to scan based on the contents of the file is considerably less than what
> is in the file, i.e., I import a channels.conf file with 21 known good
> channels, and MythTV (unsuccessfully) scans 6.  No idea what's going on
> there.


The kernel is 2.6.17.14-6mdv-multimedia (Mandriva's "stock" multimedia
kernel for 2007, which I recompiled to tweak a few minor things):

[rcs at vader: ~]$ uname -a
Linux vader.malibyte.net 2.6.17.14-6mdvmmcustom-k8 #2 PREEMPT Sun Apr 15
01:33:21 PDT 2007 x86_64 Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+
GNU/Linux


Here are all of the Myth rpms I'm using now - they were the latest version
at the time I installed (April).

[rcs at vader: ~]$ rpm -qa | grep myth
lib64myth0.20-0.20-3.13107.1plf2007.0
mythtv-0.20-1plf2007.0

mythtv-plugin-game-0.20a-6.13114.1plf2007.0
mythtv-doc-0.20-3.13107.1plf2007.0
mythcontrols-0.20a-2plf2007.0
mythtv-plugin-news-0.20a-6.13114.1plf2007.0
mythweather-0.20a-2plf2007.0
mythtv-setup-0.20-3.13107.1plf2007.0
mythtv-themes-myththemes-0.20-2mdv2007.0
mythtv-plugin-archive-0.20a-6.13114.1plf2007.0
mythtv-frontend-0.20-3.13107.1plf2007.0
mythtv-plugin-controls-0.20a-6.13114.1plf2007.0
mythtv-plugin-dvd-0.20a-6.13114.1plf2007.0
mythbrowser-0.20a-2plf2007.0
mythtv-backend-0.20-3.13107.1plf2007.0
mythnews-0.20a-2plf2007.0
mythdvd-0.20a-2plf2007.0
mythtv-plugin-video-0.20a-6.13114.1plf2007.0
mythweb-0.20a-1.mdk2006.0.mde
mytharchive-0.20a-2plf2007.0
mythtv-plugin-music-0.20a-6.13114.1plf2007.0
mythtv-plugin-gallery-0.20a-6.13114.1plf2007.0
mythtv-plugin-browser-0.20a-6.13114.1plf2007.0
mythtv-plugin-weather-0.20a-6.13114.1plf2007.0
mythweb-0.20a-6plf2007.1
mythtv-themes-base-0.20-3.13107.1plf2007.0
mythgame-0.20a-2plf2007.0
mythmusic-0.20a-2plf2007.0
mythgallery-0.20a-2plf2007.0
mythweb-0.20a-6plf2007.1
mythtv-themes-base-0.20-3.13107.1plf2007.0
mythmusic-0.20a-2plf2007.0
mythgallery-0.20a-2plf2007.0

I went back through a few threads on www.pchdtv.com's forum
(unfortunately, the forum is riddled with spam) but I now remember that I
got the card to scan all possible channels after I deleted it ("delete all
capture cards") in mythtv-setup, then re-entered it again (as a DVB card,
of course).

Bob

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