[mythtv] WinTV and Cable/Digital Cable

Jeremy Oddo mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:52:52 -0800 (PST)


Wow, it's amazing how LITTLE information there is on the net :(
Is there a way to find out which tuner you _should_ be using?
Do I need to call this via modprobe or do I set it in xawtv?
Are there _any_ resources out there or do you just have to start flipping
stuff and hope you run across it eventually?

> 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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