[mythtv-users] testing the pinnacle 800i?

Michael Lynch lynchmv at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 21:50:24 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:30 PM, James Crow <james at ultratans.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 22:16 -0500, Gordon McLellan wrote:
>> I have followed the wiki instructions, and the card is detected and
>> firmware is loaded.
>>
>> The card shows up as either an Analog V4L card, or a Samsung DVB
>> tuner.  I would like to perform a test capture, to make sure the card
>> actually works, before I dive in to configuring it with myth.  My PC
>> also has a pvr-500 in it, and both tuners are working as expected.
>>
>> To test the pvr, it is really easy:
>>
>> mplayer /dev/video1
>>
>> this shows a video stream for channel 2
>>
>> To test the analog portion of the 800i, I try:
>>
>> mplayer /dev/video0
>>
>> Mplayer complains about missing avisynth.dll (and the list just goes
>> on and on, I hunt down and feed it one library after another).  I do
>> have win32codecs and all sorts of other non-free stuff installed from
>> the Mediabuntu repo.  I don't think it is a missing codec problem.
>>
>> I also tried scanning the dvb section of the card, both using the
>> "scan" command, and myth's scanner.  Neither find any channels, even
>> though a tv with a digital tuner finds plenty of clear-qam channels on
>> the cable (Charter west-Michigan).
>>
>> I tried capturing some video, and playing it back on windows, but
>> windows says the file is corrupt or not a video file (even tried VLC).
>>
>> Any suggestions for testing this card, short of installing Windows?
>>
>> Thanks a bunch!
>>
>> Gordon
>> gmail: gordonthree
>
> I used xawtv to test the analog side of mine when I first installed it.
> When you run the scan for the DVB side make sure you try all the cable
> frequencies. Something like
>
> scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/scan/examples/US_CABLE_Center
>
> I am not in front of my machine so I don't recall the exact name of the
> file, but there is more than one for cable. Try to scan with all of
> them.
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
>
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