[mythtv-users] I quit -- unless I can get some help!
allene222
nabble at oldpaloalto.com
Fri May 30 03:40:37 UTC 2008
Time for more beer and more help after another day and getting stuck
again. Maybe I should have quit yesterday. So many clearly written
instructions that don't work because they must apply to some unknown
version that I don't have...
If you read my earlier posts, you know I foolishly clicked on an
important security upgrade and took a working myth system into a
non-working system. I got some good advice and have tried to follow
it. Realizing that the upgrade to 8.04 was never going to allow my USB
tuner to work, I did a fresh install of 7.10. Here is what I did today
after the previous advice induced hangover subsided.
Clean install of Mythbuntu 7.10
Nvidea 5+, XvMC, Bob2x
Kernel rebuild to allow the pcHDVT USB tuner to work
Did a Scan and successfully created a channels.conf file
The scan found all the on air channels that are out there so I know the
tuner is working.
I have tried to do a scan in myth unsuccessfully -- it scans but no lock
on any channel (no surprise to me as I have done this before)
Tried to import the channels.conf file I created. I found the place to
do that and entered the directory and all and hit scan. The scan stops
at channel 3, just like it did last month when I first got the system
working.
Like I said, I have seen this before. I looked at my notes from the
previous install which said something like "I fooled around and did
something and it started working. I don't know what I did" I spent the
last 3 hours trying the results of my googleing and have tried
everything I can think of. I tried to input a channel manually in the
channel editor and get a display when I click WatchTV but no lock. My
notes said something about having to enter a channel manually. I put in
channel 24 (KGO-HD) and entered a frequency, don't remember exactly but
something like 533444.923 (entered as khz). I also tried just the
channel number, 24, in that field. No picture when I tune to this
manually entered channel, and no ability to import the nice
channels.conf file.
Thanks everyone for the help. I know this is some stupid easy thing but
I can't find it.
So, how do you import channels.conf without having it stop at channel 3?
Allen
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