[mythtv-users] Box rebuild issues

[Nathan A. Smith]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 04:48 +0100, Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 08/05/07, Nathan A. Smith <nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Replying back to -users list in case it helps anyone else:
> 
> > I figured it out -- I didn't match ALL my source to an input (ie: I
> > didn't match my digital cable to anything as It was intended to work
> > with firewire and I haven't got that to work).
> >
> 
> Even though you got it sorted, I had a little look at your old DB
> backup and found the following:
> 
> Capture Card (cardid) -> Card Input (cardinputid) -> Video Source (sourceid):
> 
> MPEG (1) -> Tuner 1 (1) -> Cable (1) - channels 2-78
> MPEG (2) -> Tuner 1 (2) -> Cable (1) - channels 2-78
> 
> DVB (3) -> Television (4) -> Cable (1) - channels 2-78
> DVB (3) -> DVBInput (5) -> Digital Cable (2) - channels 2-78 plus 80(4
> subs), 85 ,86(2 identical sub channels)
> 
> V4L (4) -> Unconnected
> 
> Listings:
> 
> Listings for channels 2-78 (less 34) on sources 1 and 2. No listings
> for extra 80+ channels.
> 
> 
> Having nothing connected to the V4L card should not have impacted
> MythTV, as there are no listings attached to it for the scheduler to
> use, nor any defined inputs to change to.
> 
> I think the problem is the DVBInput having regular channels associated
> with it in addition to the 7 digital ones above channel 79 (did you
> scan for these manually in mythtv-setup?). If you wanted to use the
> digital ATSC with the DVBInput I do not think you should have
> configured the Digital Cable source and attached it to the DVB card,
> but should have scanned for channels or imported an existing
> channels.conf.
> 
> Do you have a PVR-500 and a HD card in the system?
Yes,

I do.  I have the pchdtv 5500 as well.  Although, I haven't had much
luck getting hd over my cable (although talking to the head tech, it's
suppose to be available over it via QAM).

Nasa

> 
> Nick