[mythtv-users] Can't Get pcHDTV-5500 To Work With MythTV
Brad DerManouelian
myth at dermanouelian.com
Wed Jun 27 03:38:59 UTC 2007
On Jun 26, 2007, at 8:29 PM, Donald J. Maddox wrote:
> I have an existing working MythTV installation that I have been using
> via the firewire port on my DCT-6200 cable box. I have had no
> problems
> at all with the firewire tuner.
>
> Recently, I purchased a pcHDTV-5500 card and added it to this
> machine -
> but I can't get MythTV to use the card at all, really.
>
> The card is recognized, and all the drivers load successfully. I was
> able to create a channels.conf file for mplayer with scandvb, and
> mplayer can tune and play all the existing digital (QAM-256) channels
> that are not encrypted. I can also tune all the analog channels with
> tvtime without problems.
>
> HOWEVER, MythTV cannot find even a single digital channel with it's
> built-in channel scanner - not even if I point it to my known-working
> with mplayer channels.conf! Although it does appear to be able to
> find
> all the analog channels when I scan for them, it will not tune them in
> live TV if I switch to that input.
>
> Anybody have any idea what might be going wrong here? The box is an
> updated Fedora Core 6 machine with kernel 2.6.20-1.2962 (didn't work
> with .2952 either), and my MythTV version is installed from the
> 0.20.1-158 rpms.
Did you select the DVB interface or the analog interface in the
capture card setup?
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