[mythtv-users] Cannot change channels using EPG

Tom Andrews ta264 at cam.ac.uk
Mon Jul 9 21:05:59 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 13:51 -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Tom Andrews wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 13:35 -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> >> On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Tom Andrews wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 12:02 -0700, Tom Greer wrote:
> >>>> On 7/8/07, Tom Andrews <ta264 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've been attempting to set up MythTV for the past couple of
> >>>>> days.  It's
> >>>>> mostly working except that I cannot change channels using the
> >>>>> EPG.  I
> >>>>> move over a channel and press 'm', and it just dumps me back on  
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> channel I was watching before and flashes up the OSD with the
> >>>>> original
> >>>>> channel info a couple of times.  I can change channel
> >>>>> successfully if I
> >>>>> use browse mode.
> >>>>
> >>>> Try turning on the option "Use select to change the channel in the
> >>>> program guide".  With the option on, you simply press the OK/Select
> >>>> button on your remote (ENTER on the keyboard) to change to the
> >>>> current
> >>>> channel in the EPG.
> >>>>
> >>>> This option can be found via the menus at Utilities/Setup ->  
> >>>> Setup ->
> >>>> TV Settings -> Program Guide on Page 2.
> >>>>
> >>>> Tom
> >>>
> >>> I've tried that, and I get the same result, except I have to press
> >>> ENTER
> >>> instead :(  It just exits the guide but doesn't change channel.
> >>
> >> Are you using a channel change script? Maybe the user you're running
> >> the frontend as doesn't have permission to execute the channel change
> >> script?
> >
> > No, I haven't messed with any channel script settings.  I'm also using
> > an internal pci tuner, which makes it even more odd.  It happens with
> > the Ubuntu feisty version (from January) and the latest snapshot from
> > 0.20-fixes (from the mythbuntu repository).  Could it be the packages
> > somehow?  I guess the next thing is to try compiling from source...
> 
> Knowing what tuner might help.

It's a K-World DVB-T 220.  Might also be sold as tevion.  It uses the
saa7134-dvb and saa7134 modules (it's got both analogue and dvb tuners
but i haven't configuered the analogue part).  

Thanks for your help,

Tom
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