[mythtv] WinTV and Cable/Digital Cable

Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:14:57 -0800 (PST)

I also had problems getting around audio problems on my card
(AverTV Stereo). I guess there are a couple of things you
can do. The easiest would be to take out your card and open
up the tuner part and see if any of the components have
hints as to which tuner it is. Also try the video4linux
mailing list on the redhat site. You have to sign up to be
able to see any of the postings so they won't show up on
google.

If you still don't find any info you could do it the hard
way... Do: 

rmmod bttv
modprobe bttv tuner=1

- Run myth/xawtv and see if it works and if not:

rmmod bttv
modprobe bttv tuner=2

And just keep going until it does work... Ofcourse this
would only work if the problem really is the tuner and the
tuner is actually supported in bttv.

Btw. you sure the card actually isn't defective? Does it
work under Windows?

-Emil

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:05:05 -0800 (PST), "Jeremy Oddo"
wrote:

> 
> 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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