[mythtv-users] SOLVED! My analog tuners stopped working!

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Sep 13 17:55:33 UTC 2007


Bill Omer wrote:
> On 9/12/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:07:00AM -0400, Bill Omer wrote:
>>> On 9/12/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 07:48:46PM -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>>>>> On Sep 11, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Bill Omer wrote:
>>>>>> I rebooted and got the same results, but reversed!  Now /dev/video0 is
>>>>>> snowy and video1 works fine.  Doesn't make any sense to me ...
>>>>> The reversal thing makes sense. You will need to use udev rules to
>>>>> make sure your cards stay in the same order on reboot. As far as why
>>>>> one is working and the other is not, I'm afraid I don't know.
>>>> I speculate that you have cards with two different tuners, and some
>>>> file that told your driver that has been upgraded over.
>>> Yes, I have a pvr-150 and  a 250.  I dont quiet understand what you
>>> mean by "some file that told your driver that has been upgraded over."
>>> though ....  Could you elaborate for me please?
>> I meant that the driver needs to be told which card has which tuner.
>>
>> But if they're ok at boot, that's not it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - jra
> 
> 
> Figured it out.  In mythtv-setup, under General, on page 2, there's a
> simple little option that I over looked.  Channel frequency table:
> us-bcast
> 
> Changed that to us-cable, now life is good.
> 
> I've never had to do this before, so I'm assuming this is a new
> default option in .21
> 
> Thanks for the help.  It was indeed a channel frequency table issue,
> just wasn't an option under the capture card settings where I thought
> it would be.
> 
> Now, what if one tuner was connected to cable and the other was on
> ota?  Doesn't look like you can adjust the frequency table on a per
> tuner basis.
>
I believe you can set each cap card to "default" or something else. The
default is what you set in the general options.

beww


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