[mythtv-users] My analog tuners stopped working!

Bill Omer bill.omer at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 03:47:52 UTC 2007


On 9/11/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> Bill Omer wrote:
>
> > Hmm...  apparently I spoke too soon.  Here's whats happen.
> >
> > After a reboot, without mythbackend starting, I can cat both tuners
> > and play the mpg streams with mplayer just fine.  It seems as if both
> > tuners are on the same channel though, which may or may not be a
> > problem.
> >
> > I start mythbackend.  One tuner works, the other is snowy.  I kill
> > mythbackend, cat both files, and only one works.
> >
> > I'm not sure what this could be at all.
>
> Wow. Pretty odd.
>
> I wonder if perhaps your backend is using the wrong frequency table
> (perhaps HRC instead of standard for example).
>
> One card might have enough AFC range to tune the channels anyway (not
> uncommon) and the other might not. Those settings might persist across a
> reboot.
>
> Far fetched I know, but whatever this turns out to be will be unusual I
> think.
>
> beww


Where would these settings be located at?

-Bill


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