[mythtv-users] Hauppauge WinTV HVR-3000 DVB-S ? Help ?

[Declan Grady]

Robert mentioned 

On Fri, September 26, 2008 11:22 am, Declan Grady wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> I'm in Ireland, and am a bit lost with my HVR-3000 for DVB-S
>>

>If you want to use DVB-S and DVB-T, I think your best bet is to try and
>get the Steven Toth S2-API stuff to work.  This seems to be the direction
>linux-dvb is going.

>If you just want DVB-S then perservere with getting the linux-dvb
>repositories to build....

OK, 1 step forward & 2 step backwards.
I did a fresh Etch install, updated to etchnhalf kernel & headers, got the
complete dvb stuff, download, compiled & installed. Hey presto, HVR-3000 is
recognized with 2 frontends.

DVB-S working, although very poor picture - lots of stuttering & breakup.
Unwatchable.

However, the HVR-3000 itself seems to work well, as I can tune into a
channel with szap, and record to an mpg file, watch it with mplayer, and it
is perfect.

So, in my wisdom, after a few unsuccessful tweaking attempts in the
frontend, I removed & reinstalled mythtv completely.

I used apt-get remove & install.  I even tried using remove --purge.

Now, I have a box that won't let me do the mythtv-setup.
It looks like it is going to start ok, shows the prescaling theme/images,
then screen goes blank. If I press escape, it gives me the normal error
screen telling me I haven't configured my storage directories, so that would
suggest it is actually running, but something wrong with display.

I removed everything, including X, getting me back to a base system, and
then installed them all again, hoping my problem would go away, but no. same
thing.

I even checked the scart ouptut of my Geforce 6200 card, in case it was
trying to display on the TV instead of the VGA output I was using.

Is my best bet just to do a new base install again, or is there a simpler
solution.

Thanks,
Declan