[mythtv-users] germany and pvr 350: how can I get the tuner work?

[DonAnde]

It was a little bit strange. I booted windows installed the software to
test the card. it worked so I booted gentoo again. 

And then I had a channel but I couldn't switch to another so I think
mythtv can't access the tuner and Niklas are right my tuner is not
properly configured; maybe 28 is false.

But why is there a channel. could it be that if the firmware is load it
saves the last selected channel?

> For me mythfilldatabase --manual didn't work. So I used the channel
> setup screen to get an idea of how the channel table in mysql looks 
> like and then set up a file containing INSERT-rules for each 
> channel to feed to mysql with 
> #> mysql -u mythtv -p mythconverg < channelfile.sql
> just because the file is easier to adjust than mysql.
> Don't forget to "DELETE FROM channel;" in mysql to delete the 
> channel table before your next try.
> 
> And as Niklas said, you need to rewrite the channel-names. I use Ex 
> for Kx channels and SEx channels for Sx channels under S21. For S21 
> and more it remains Sx, at least where I'm living :)

This sounds intresting but complicated. Do you know is there a howto
available how to name and edit the channels?

i.e. mythfilldatabase shows me for the first channel to edit:

mythfilldatabase --manual
###
### Running in manual channel configuration mode.
### This will ask you questions about every channel.
###
QDateTime::fromString: Parameter out of range
----------------- Start of XMLTV output -----------------
using config filename /root/.xmltv/tv_grab_de_tvtoday.conf
grabbing: ################################already had category for
Martha Argerich available (Dokumentarfilm), replacing by 'Porträt', this
should not happen at /usr/bin/tv_grab_de line 890.
#title element: not writing empty content for title at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/XMLTV.pm line 1724.
bad data inside programme element, not writing
#################
------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------
###
### New channel found
###
### name     = 3SAT
### callsign =
### channum  =
### finetune =
### tvformat =
### icon     =
###
Choose a channel ID (positive integer)  [0]
Choose a channel name (any string, long version)  [ARD]
Choose a channel callsign (any string, short version)
Choose a channel number (just like xawtv)
Choose a channel fine tune offset (just like xawtv)
Choose a TV format (PAL/SECAM/NTSC/ATSC/Default)
Choose a channel icon image (any path name)
...

what is the ID? is it fixed? Do I have to name it in special way? Has it
something to do with the naming-scheme you mentionned at the top
(Kx,Sex)?

thanks and greetings don

p.s. sorry for so many questions but I'm a little bit confused about so
many things to configure, because I installed a leadteck-tv-card for the
brother of my girlfriend, I had to compile bttv into the kernel, to load
bttv and to start tvtune and he was online.