[mythtv-users] Hauppauge 1600 will pick up channels in scan but wont show analog video
John Pilkington
J.Pilk at tesco.net
Thu Jan 22 20:15:59 UTC 2009
Nick F wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Russ Chambliss, Jr.
> <accidentalgamer at gmail.com <mailto:accidentalgamer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I have recently run into a problem that i am at a loss with, and i
> was hoping someone out there might be able to help. Im currently
> running a knoppmyth 5.5 and using a Hauppauge 1600 card. I was able
> to get the system set up and running with analog cable on the analog
> tuner, and digital over the air broadcasts on the digital tuner. I
> found that my cable company brodcasts anumber of digital chanels
> unencrypted and so I tried to set up the digital tuner to pull in
> unscrambled channels. I unplugged the cable line to the analog side
> and plugged it in to the digital tuner. After fooling around for a
> while with the setup trying to scan for channels, i gave up on
> trying pull in the digital cable so i switched the cables back to
> the original configuration and restarted myth.
> ...Through out all of this my digital tuner has no problems, im able
> to watch over the air broadcasts. The analog tuner will pick up all
> of the cable channels when i scan in mythtv-setup, but will not
> display anything when i try to watch the tuner in mythtv. The only
> thing i can think to do at this point is reinstall knoppmyth, but im
> not really sure that will solve the problem, and i dont really want
> to go through all that trouble.
>
> After a reboot - what does dmesg | grep cx18 show?
>
>
I have a different Hauppauge analog/digital card in which the systems
share the tuner, so it's one or the other. Is your digital channel
active all the time - eg to get EIT stuff? Does analog work if you
disable digital?
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