[mythtv-users] PVR350 / Analog Channels in Australia Problems

[Ollie]

All,


So I have 99% of MythTV working the only issue appears to be the TV channel
tuning down here in Australia. I have used 0.5 of 'tv_grab_au' from
'http://www.onlinetractorparts.com.au/rohbags/xmltvau/' to populate it all.
When I do manual tunning i.e.:

 [mythtv at squal mythtv]$ /usr/lib/ivtv/ptune-ui.pl
 frequency table now pal-australia
 Channel changed to 7, freq = '182250'


Then try and capture some video:
 [mythtv at squal mythtv]$cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg

Then everything is fine, however when I try and use 'mythtv' to do this I 
get grey static and problems as described here:

 http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2003-December/021828.html


However I have ensured that my database is correctly populated using the
output from:

 [mythtv at squal mythtv]$ mysql -p mythconverg
 Enter password:
 mysql> select * from channel;

 <* for complete output refer to end of message >


This returns a fully populated database (which from what I can ascertain 
from google is indeed the cause of problems in a number of cases), however 
I am still getting the following errors in  
'/var/log/mythtv/mythtvbackend':


 Channel: '' was not found in the database.
 Most likely, the default channel set for this input
 (1 Tuner 0 )
 in setup is wrong

 Error, couldn't find any available channels.
 Your database is most likely setup incorrectly.


I have ensured on the 4th option in 'mythtvsetup' that the Tuner 0
(/dev/video0) is bound to the channel selection. I have noticed that:

 a) You can not supply a channel frequency > 5 digits via 'mythtvsetup'
 b) If you dont assign a channel number the overlay on LiveTV will contain
that channel name


It seems like others have had the same problem also:
 http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2002-September/000396.html


Anyway the equipment this is running on is:

 Hauppage 350 PVR using both Analog in and composite out.


Any ideas anyone?

Chrs

Ollie

--[select * from channel; output]--


+--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+------------+------+-------
---+--------------+---------------------+-------------+----------+------------
+--------+-------+----------+
| chanid | channum | freqid | sourceid | callsign | name       | icon |
finetune | videofilters | xmltvid             | recpriority | contrast |
brightness | colour | hue   | tvformat |
+--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+------------+------+-------
---+--------------+---------------------+-------------+----------+------------
+--------+-------+----------+
|   1000 | 7       | 64250  |        1 | SBS      | SBS        |      |
0 | NULL         | C28.au.tv.yahoo.com |           0 |    32768 |      
32768 |
32768 | 32768 | Default  |
|   1001 | 31      | 54925  |        1 | C31      | Channel 31 |      |
0 | NULL         | C31.au.tv.yahoo.com |           0 |    32768 |      
32768 |
32768 | 32768 | Default  |
|   1002 | 7       | 64250  |        1 | Seven#   | Seven      |      |
0 | NULL         | C7.au.tv.yahoo.com  |           0 |    32768 |      
32768 |
32768 | 32768 | Default  |
|   1003 | 2       | 64250  |        1 | ABC      | ABC        |      |
0 | NULL         | C2.au.tv.yahoo.com  |           0 |    32768 |      
32768 |
32768 | 32768 | Default  |
|   1004 | 9       | 19625  |        1 | Nine     | Nine       |      |
0 | NULL         | C9.au.tv.yahoo.com  |           0 |    32768 |      
32768 |
32768 | 32768 | Default  |
|   1005 | 10      | 64250  |        1 | Ten      | TEN        |      |
0 | NULL         | C10.au.tv.yahoo.com |           0 |    32768 |      
32768 |
32768 | 32768 | Default  |
+--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+------------+------+-------
---+--------------+---------------------+-------------+----------+------------
+--------+-------+----------+
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