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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Jim Reith wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Hi,<br>
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I'm trying to setup a box using Knoppmyth and a PVR350 card.<br>
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I get picture but just static.<br>
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I've tryied the following while having LiveTV running, run ivtvctl
-R,<br>
and run scantv in parallell.<br>
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When I just run ivtvctl -R it responds with saying that frequency is
set<br>
to 0 even though I've hard coded the channel number for two channels
in<br>
mythtv-setup. I stays at 0 whatever channel i switch to.<br>
<br>
So I let it run while letting scantv perform a full scan. When I do
this<br>
I get variations in the static and sometimes I even get something
that<br>
could become a picture with some luck :-).<br>
<br>
I've also tried to run mplayer /dev/video0 while performing a scan
with<br>
scantv with almost the same result. The static shows up a bit<br>
differently but it almost becomes a picture at the same
frequencies.<br>
<br>
So I guess that I have got two issues. One, no clear picture,
there<br>
should be one since I get picture on a regular TV using the same
antenna<br>
cable. Two, MythTV keeps setting my card to frequency 0 whenever I<br>
change channel. It does at least set my card to input from Tuner 0,
I<br>
can see that when I run ivtvctl -P.<br>
<br>
Anyone? Please! :-)<br>
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What is your output device?<br>
Do you have an input source set up?<br>
Have you run mythfilldatabase or edited the frequency into the DB?<br>
<br>
Also, what distro and what software versions?<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>For the moment I use my regular monitor
as output device, ATI Radeon 9600. I get exactly the same picture when
I hook it up to a DLP projector via the ATI card. Haven't tried to
connect via the PVR350 card yet.<br>
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ivtv 0.2.0<br>
Myth 0.18.1<br>
Knoppmyth Release 5A16, the above is the ones included in this
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<div>Same release I started with. I've since added a PVR-150 as a
second tuner and have 350gb of shows on disk. I had to upgrade to ivtv
3.6y to get the 150 working but the 350 worked fine with Knoppmyth
originally I assume you followed this?<font face="Lucida Grande"
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>I did set everything up the first time in
mythtv-setup, after that did I run mythfilldatabase, getting channels
for Sweden, then I changed the values for two channels since I have
cable TV here and I know that the channels aren't at the same
frequencies. I ran /etc/cron.daily/myth-backend after I did those
changes in myhttv-setup.<br>
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I haven't had any peak in the database yet. Is there something
interesting to be found in there or might it be easyier to make the
changes directly in the database? I am very familiar with SQL so it
wouldn't be a problem if you think that it is easyier.</blockquote>
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<div>You don't need to modify the SQL db. There is a channel editor
that will let you make the settings. Since I was able to get my
listings online, I didn't have to do any of that and it worked.</div>
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Your 350 is Pal I assume? I can share with you my 2.0 working
ivtv</div>
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<div>root@mythtvbox:/etc/mythtv/modules# cat ivtv.350only<br>
alias char-major-81 videodev<br>
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c<br>
#options ivtv debug=1<br>
#options tuner type=2<br>
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1<br>
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400;
/sbin/modprobe saa7115; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv;
/sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb; /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c<br>
remove ivtv /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ivtv &&
/sbin/modprobe -r saa7115 && /sbin/modprobe -r msp3400 &&
/sbin/modprobe -r tuner && /sbin/modprobe -r ivtv-fb &&
/sbin/modprobe -r lirc_i2c<br>
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<div>I really think your problem probably lies in your input settings
for your source, your cable. I don't think you have the channel
frequencies set properly and so, while it works, it's not tuned to
anything. Maybe someone successful in Sweden can chime in with at
least one known good cable frequency?</div>
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<div>hope this helps some.</div>
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<div>Jim</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Thank you!!<br>
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/Peter</blockquote>
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