[mythtv-users] 0.24 PVR-350

[Ken Smith]

Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Ken,
>
> Monday, January 11, 2016, 10:47:08 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Hi Myth people
>
>> Please forgive this question about an old system. I have an 0.24 system
>> on Centos 6 that has a number of DVB cards and a PVR-350 that worked
>> well in the pre digital era, but I have never configured it on the 0.24
>> setup.
>> I wanted to capture the UHF Analog output from a Cable TV box. So I
>> configured the PVR-350, which is /dev/video4, as an IVTV device, mapped
>> the inputs and run mythtvsetup and it shows up as capture device 18.
>> I've manually entered a channel number and a frequency but I get errors
>> like:-
>> 2016-01-09 19:23:52.619 Channel(/dev/video4) Error:
>> GetCurrentChannelNum(801): Failed to find Channel
>> 2016-01-09 19:23:52.637 Channel(/dev/video4)::TuneTo(801): Error, failed
>> to find channel.
>> If I tune the PVR-350 to the right channel with v4l2-ctl and run ffplay
>> /dev/video4 I get the output I'd expect so the PVR-350 is working.
>> I must have missed some setting somewhere - but what?
>
>
> Which connection did you use in Input connections?
> Depending on how you connected it, you have to use S-Video 1 or
> Composite 1 NOT Tuner 1, if the cable box does the tuning!
>
Its the Tuner input I'm using as the signal from the Cable box is PAL-I 
on UHF at 735.25 Mhz. Even if my tuning was wrong I'd expect to see snow 
from the Tuner input but I get a black screen.

-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.