[mythtv-users] MythTV and Hauppage HVR-950Q

[James Cobban]

    From: Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> Subject: Re:
    [mythtv-users] MythTV and Hauppage HVR-950Q To: Discussion about
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    charset="iso-8859-1" On 9/15/2011 21:21, James Cobban wrote:

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>     >  I am sorry but that response is largely gibberish to me.  Are you referring to the Card Type field?  How am I supposed to know what to set that to if the authors of the product do not?  I have tried:
>     >
>     >  USB MPEG-4 encoder box
>     >  Analog V4L capture card
>     >  IVTV MPEG-2 encoder card
>     >  H.264 encoder card
>     >
>     >  And NONE of them enable the channel scan button either in Input Connections or Channel Editor.
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    Then you have managed to try almost every option but the one that
    actually matters. All of those input types are for analog devices. You
    have a digital tuner. Hence, you use the "DVB DTV capture card
    (v3.x)". Assuming your tuner drivers are installed properly, MythTV
    will autodetect the card as /dev/dvb/adapter0, at which point you can
    bind your video source to your tuner input, and scan for channels.

Thank you.  That gets me further.

Defining the Capture Card I get it assigned to /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0.  This informs me that the "Frontend ID" is "Auvitek AU8522 QAM/Subtype: ATSC", whatever that means.  At least when I selected the other options they identified that I was attached to the Hauppage HVR-950Q.

In "Input Connections" I select my video source, although I have no idea why I am doing that since all I want to do is timed recordings.  Then I tab down to "Scan for channels" which is now enabled.  However scan for channels is unable to find any signals on any channels, even though when I use the stick through WinTV it finds several.

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