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

[Lorcan Hamill]

Keith,

That's excellent news!  I'll probably start pestering you with emails
off-list, but I'll try setting up Myth first, and see if it can maybe
tune this card better than the Windows software.  Slim chance, but
worth a try, I suppose.

Just for the record (and in case it might be helpful to others on
the list), do you know if your card is actually marked as "PAL-I"
or something similar?  And would you be willing to say where you
bought it, if it was from a UK website?

Thanks for the tips about tuning, and the offer to help.  I'll
try not to make you regret it... :)

Cheers,

Lorcan

Keith Davey wrote:
> 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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