[mythtv-users] PVR-350 - PAL-I Variant, for use in Ireland?

[Keith Davey]

Hi Lorcan,

I built my myth box a few weeks ago. I'm based in Dublin as well and on NTL.
I have all the channels tuned in, I used the tuner in the setup program 
in CVS. I assume its in
.014 now.

You can get all the frequencies of the NTL channels here:

http://www.ntl.com/locales/ie/en/athome/frequency.html

I would say try to tune in with the setup program and add the channels 
directly. When using the
ptune-ui.pl script I found that that all the NTL channels where 'a' 
channels whatever they are, you'll see
them in the gui.

I'm not sure if the card you bought can do it though, as I got my from 
the uk, but thats how I got the channels to
work. If you want to send me a mail privately feel free, we can maybe 
talk over the phone if I can help.

Keith

Lorcan Hamill wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> First post from a MythTV newbie, so go easy on me. :)
>
> I've just bought a Hauppauge PVR-350, with the intention of
> bulding a Myth-based PVR.  But it looks like I may have made
> a really dumb mistake, and bought the wrong version...
>
> I live in Dublin, Ireland, and I want to use the card with
> the local NTL cable service.  I bought the card over the web
> from a company in Germany.  At the time, I thoght that was a
> reasonable thing to do, since Germany and Ireland both use PAL,
> right?
>
> Well, now I can't get the card to work.  As I installed it,
> I noticed that the card has a label on it that says:
>
>   "PAL-B/G  48134  Rev J347"
>
> I think that "PAL-B/G" is the problem - it's PAL-I that we use
> in Ireland, it seems - at least according to this list of
> broadcast standards by country:
>
>  http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/WorldVideo.html
>
> (Wish I'd seen that *before* I bought the card.)
>
> I tried installing the card anyway, and installed the Windows
> software under Windows98 (It's a dual-boot setup, with Win98SE
> and RedHat 9 at the moment.)  The Windows channel-scanning
> application found 15 channels on my NTL Cable connection, which
> is correct - but when I try to view  them, all I get is
> a black screen.
>
> So far, I haven't started installing the ivtv driver or any
> other Linux software.  But when I run "lspci", the output now
> includes this, all on one line:
>
> 00:0e.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc
>   iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev01)
>
> So, I've got lots of questions:
>
>   Am I right in thinking that this card is a version
>   that works in Germany, but not in Ireland?
>
>   Is it possible that there's something I can do in software
>   (or firmware) that will make this card work with PAL-I?
>
>   Does a PAL-I version of the PVR-350 exist, and where
>   would I buy one?  (I've seen the PVR-250 in stores here,
>   but never the 350.)
>
>   Has anyone got a PVR-350 (or 250) working with NTL's
>   cable service (the basic analogue package) in Dublin?
>
>   Does anyone want to buy a PAL-B/G PVR-350, as new?  :)
>
> Any answers would be *very* gratefully received.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Lorcan Hamill
>
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