<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk" target="_blank">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 23/10/13 17:49, Karl Newman wrote:<br>
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Michael T. Dean <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com" target="_blank">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>><u></u>wrote:<div class="im"><br>
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On 10/23/2013 10:01 AM, Stefan Jones wrote:<br>
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Thanks, I'm glad I wasn't just imagining this, or that importing and<br>
updating my database had broken something.<br>
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I did search the list archives on the Wiki and the bug database, but<br>
"pretune" didn't seem specific enough.<br>
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Well, you'll find a lot more if you use the proper terminology for<br>
searching. As shown in my previous e-mail, the setting is called, "Preset<br>
Tuner to Channel".<br>
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Unless someone has another suggestion, I will manually record on channel<br>
3 and set the STB's channel manually until this gets fixed.<br>
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A better approach would be to change your external channel change<br>
script--that you need anyway--to issue the appropriate v4l2ctl commands to<br>
a) set the TV format (NTSC or PAL), and b) tune channel 3 on the PVR-150<br>
before it does its normal work of changing the STB channel.<br>
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Mike<br>
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Is there a good reason not to just restore the "Preset Tuner to Channel"<br>
field? Suggesting that people put a workaround in the channel change script<br>
is not user-friendly. This is a basic function for analog tuner cards that<br>
has worked flawlessly for possibly the entire lifetime of Myth, and is even<br>
more important now that analog cards are useless as actual tuners other<br>
than as endpoints for set top boxes, which require tuning a fixed channel.<br>
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Does your STB not have a composite or component out? That may be a better solution than tuning RF channel 3 as you'll get better picture definition.<br>
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You would require a single v4l2ctl command before the backend starts up to select the appropriate input on your PVR150 (and choose the right input in the tuner setup screens).<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Mike Perkins</font></span><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have a Comcast DTA, so no, it only has an RF out. But to be honest, I haven't noticed any difference at all in the picture from the DTA recorded on channel 3 compared to the set top box which comes in by composite. Anyway, my point is null because it wasn't clear that Mike was suggesting it only as a temporary workaround until the setup screen gets fixed.<br>
<br></div><div>Karl<br></div></div></div></div>