[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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