[mythtv] WinTV and Cable/Digital Cable

[John]

You might want to check the type of tuner that bttv is using.  At first
bttv recognized the wrong tunner for my card and I had to use
canada-cable.  When I changed to the currect tuner via a module parameter
I was able to use us-cable..  Picture quality was much improved.
John

> I tried it in xawtv and got the same thing.  I live in America so I
> tried us-broadcast and us-cable (NTSC).  The cable port is
> "Television", right?  I have four inputs under xawtv:  Television,
> Composite1, S-Video, and Composite3.  Television gives me colorful
> snow, Composite1 gives me a blue screen, S-Video gives me a B/W
> picture, and Composite3 gives me a color picture.  I'm guessing that,
> in order to use the cable tuner, I have to have my cable coax going to
> the coax-in of the WinTV card.
>
>
>
>> make sure that you can make it work in xawtv first..
>>
>> you probably have an input setting incorrect, like using us-broadcast
>> or pal or something..
>>
>> make sure it works in xawtv first
>>
>> -Mark
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net
>> [mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net] On Behalf Of Jeremy Oddo
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 12:20 PM
>> To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
>> Subject: [mythtv] WinTV and Cable/Digital Cable
>>
>>
>> For all you WinTV users out there...did you need to do anything
>> special to get the cable input to work?  I'm just getting a lot of
>> colorful snow.  I thought that it was perhaps my digital cable, but
>> I'm thinking that isn't the case.
>>
>> If I plug something into the WinTV S-VHS input, I can see picture. If
>> I plug cable into the the WInTV coax input, I get snow. If I plug a
>> VHS into WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I plug cable into VHS
>> then to WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I plug cable into VHS then
>> to WinTV coax input, I get snow.
>>
>> Is there something I missed with the WinTV card setup?  The S-VHS
>> input works fine but the coax cable input gives me snow.  Of course,
>> if the cable routes thru the VHS then to WinTV via S-VHS I can't
>> change channels.
>>
>> I was thinking that it was the fact that I have digital cable, but I
>> can see the first 61 channels of cable thru the VHS so I _SHOULD_ be
>> able to get those channels, right?
>>
>>
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