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

[mythtv mythtv]

>> 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?
>
>   
I'm using the DVB interface.

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Well your not the only one.  I have the exact same problem with my hd3000 doing 8vsb over the air.  It can make a channels.conf fine and get signals with the command line tools, but mythtv can't handle it.  Mine has been broken since April, don't even have mythtv running anymore.  It would do this on FC6 so after a month of waiting I tried debian, with the same results.  And now it sits dead.

So its not specific to fedora or debian, or it is specific to both.  What I think happened, if you search a little, is there was some sort of change in the kernel which affect this in mythtv using dvb cards or drivers.  

If I was only a programmer.
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