[mythtv-users] Black and White recording, but only on 2 channels

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 8, 2006, at 6:37 AM, pfine at comcast.net wrote:

> I am a newbie to Mythtv.  I have just finished building my system  
> which uses a PVR-350. I used Jarod Wilson's Fedora Howto and  
> managed to get Mythtv up and running in a relatively short time.   
> It is still in beta-testing for me (i.e.; I haven't hooked it up to  
> my wife's TV yet).  I am running 0.19 (0.19-125.rhfc4.at)
>
> I have two problems that I can't figure out.
>
> 1) Channels 5 and 6 recordings (and LiveTV) are black and white.   
> Channel 5 has no sound and channel 6 has bad sound, low volume and  
> static.  The PVR-350 is connected directly to the cable, so the  
> PVR-350 is being used as the tuner.  All the other channels work fine.

Ahh... Using analog cable, right?

You are almost certainly using the wrong frequency allocations for  
your cable system. The possible systems are standard, IRC and HRC,  
and the usual symptom of getting this wrong is problems with channels  
5 and 6.

Make sure you have the correct channel lineup selected with  
Datadirect, and that you have properly imported the channels in  
mythtvsetup, IOTW that you have got the channel list from your  
provider (I forget the exact language used).

>
> 2) I get no icons to display while watching LiveTV.  I assume that  
> when I am watching 1 station and using the channel up/down keys to  
> see what is on the other stations, I should see some indication of  
> the channel.  I see the show information and a box to the left of  
> the info with the word "channel" at the top, but no channel number  
> or icon or callsign.  I downloaded the iconmap.xml and ran :
>
>      % mythfilldatabase --import-icon-map iconmap.xml --update-icon- 
> map
>
> but that did not seem to help.

I think you need to have xmltv installed in order to use that method  
of importing icons. There is an alternative method, using the  
master_iconmap.xml file included in the "contrib" directory with the  
source tarball that is described at:

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html#ss9.5