[mythtv-users] I quit -- unless I can get some help!

[James Crow]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 20:40 -0700, allene222 wrote:
> 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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Allen,

  I can not be much help with the majority of your problems, but if you
decide to go back to Ubuntu 8.04 there is a working driver for the
Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro stick (and probably other versions with similar
chipsets). You can find some details at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/204578
I recently purchased one and have been able to watch NTSC and ATSC
broadcast TV (have not tried watching both at the same time) on my
Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. I have not tried to setup it up on the Myth box yet
because I have lacked the time.

Thanks,
James