[mythtv-users] How to configure a HVR-1300 for analog TV

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ at freenet.de> wrote:
> On 03/27/2012 10:07 PM, Tony Sauri wrote:
>
>> If you don't have internet access you will be unable to access an XMLTV
>> feed
>> and so it is unlikely that you will get a lot of functionality out of
>> MythTV
>> and another TV viewing application such as TV-time or TV viewer is more
>> appropriate to your needs at the moment.
>
>
> To be fixed soon with a WLAN card. Meanwhile, I'd like to be able to record,
> where programming manually with channel and times is OK.
>
>
> Anyway, I still assume the tuner/tuning belongs to the analogue V4L device?
> Being able to scan channels for either device confounds me.
>
> Is it correct to hook up the Television ports of both devices to the same
> Video Source?
>
> How do the V4L and the IVTV MPEG encoder interact, or are they to be treated
> as completely independent units?
>
>
>
>> What interface  do you have to the Cable signal?  Do you plug the cable
>> directly into th RF socket of the card or Do you have a STB that provides
>> an
>> A/V or SVideo output?
>
>
> Wall plug -> Y-splitter -> cable -> RF Socket
>
> (Interestingly, the TV shows stripes on the picture, as soon as the HTPC is
> powered up. That is, TV set to its own input from the other side of the
> Y-splitter.)
>
>
>
>> Have you made sure you have selected the correct TV R?F standards for your
>> part of the world ... the default is North America  and your date/Time
>> information UTC +2:00 indicates to me that you are probably in western
>> Europe.  Getting this correct is critical to tuning the correct channels.
>
>
> Germany. Selected PAL-BG, europe-west.
>
> I just learned that setting "Input Connections: Preset tuner to channel" to
> 3 or 4, which I now know to be wrong, results in all black, while using 36
> results in noise.
>
>
>
>> IIRC one other thing you have to do is set up some recording profiles
>> through
>>
>> Mythfrontend ->  Setup ->  TV Settings ->  Recording Profiles.
>
>
> The presets there look like they should do.
>
>
> I tried mplayer /dev/video1 and got a good picture once, but after trying
> the same with video0, video1 delivers just noise again.
>
> tvtime-scanner -d /dev/video1 claims "no signal" the whole time, so far.

forget video0, you really don't want the uncompressed video.

video1 will not work with tvtime, tvtime does not do ivtv cards.