[mythtv] Live TV in SVN

Kirby Bakken kirby at magnaspeed.net
Wed Nov 30 23:08:19 EST 2005


spam wrote:

> Kirby Bakken wrote:
>
>> I've been fighting with getting live TV to work (on HD channels only 
>> using an HD5000 DVB card), and have therefore tried building/using 
>> mythtv from the latest SVN (refreshed/rebuilt last night about 
>> midnight... I forget the exact number).  After seeing that liveTV did 
>> indeed work MUCH  better (no more stuttering), I somehow ended up 
>> with a mythbackend that 'mismatched' with my database...  So I 
>> dropped the DB and re-initialized it.  Then I went back into 
>> mythtv-setup and tried to rescan my channels...  I think I finally 
>> figured out that I have to choose 'no' separator character for HD 
>> channels...  But even then, I can't get LiveTV to work...  I've 
>> chosen channel '91' as my starting channel, because thats been the 
>> best/strongest HD channel in my area (Rochester, MN).  But when I go 
>> into Live TV, it doesn't work, and the mythbackend output says 
>> something like this:
>>
>> 2005-11-30 18:58:49.941 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>> 2005-11-30 18:58:49.941 adding: klb1 as a client (events: 0)
>> 2005-11-30 18:58:49.948 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>> 2005-11-30 18:58:49.949 TVRec(1) Error: Start channel invalid, 
>> setting to '10' on input DVBInput instead.
>> 2005-11-30 18:58:49.950 DVB#0 ERROR - Could not find dvb tuning 
>> parameters for transport 32767
>> 2005-11-30 18:58:49.950 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options 
>> for channel 10.
>> 2005-11-30 18:58:49.950 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to set channel to 10.
>> 2005-11-30 18:58:49.951 TVRec(1) Error: Channel: '91' was not found 
>> in the database.
>>                        Most likely, your DefaultTVChannel setting is 
>> wrong.
>>                        Could not start livetv.
>> 2005-11-30 18:58:49.951 TVRec(1) Error: CreateLiveTVRingBuffer() failed
>> 2005-11-30 18:58:49.951 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to create RingBuffer 1
>> 2005-11-30 18:58:49.951 TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
>>
>> Now, I KNOW that the 'default' channel is set to '51' (2nd 'best' 
>> channel in my area)...  What am I doing wrong?
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>
> Check in mythtv-setup for that card that dvbinput is selected not 
> television for Default input in the DiSEqc options.
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That was it!  Thank you!


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