[mythtv-users] Problems Detecting DVB Capture Cards.

Ian Barton lists at wilkesley.net
Thu Oct 11 10:22:27 UTC 2012


On 11/10/12 11:09, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 11/10/12 10:57, Ian Barton wrote:
>> On 11/10/12 10:29, Tim Phipps wrote:
>>>
>>> Quoting Ian Barton <lists at wilkesley.net>:
>>>> I am confused too:) The error happens whichever card I try to select.
>>>> I am aware of the cold boot problem. However, if I simply restore the
>>>> backup database and restart the backend, without doing anything else
>>>> at all Myth can tune using all three tuners. However, if I go into
>>>> setup it claims it can't open any of them.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So mythbackend can open the device files but mythtv-setup can't. That
>>> sounds like a permission problem. What user/group do you have on the
>>> device files and how do you start the progams?
>>>
>>
>> Aha! Somehow I seem to have been removed from the video group when I
>> upgraded from Lucid to the latest LTS Ubuntu. Re-adding myself to the
>> video group now lets setup get the tuner info. I'll see how I go from
>> there. I still break out in cold sweats when I remember my last attempt
>> to re tune the Freeview channels.
>>
>> Ian.
>>
>
> There have been innumerable posts about tuning Freeview.  The key is to
> identify the correct set of Transports and delete all others.
>
I decided to ignore my extensive notes as to how I did it before and 
just it let it scan all transports. So far it seems to have worked.

Ian.




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