[mythtv-users] PVR-350 +Comcast

Art Fore art.fore at comcast.net
Sun Feb 5 03:42:12 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 19:16 -0800, Art Fore wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 02:25 +0000, Leigh wrote:
> > Art Fore wrote:
> > 
> > >I have comcast cable connected directly to the PVR-350. Which output do
> > >I select from the 10 or so listed with ivtvctl? I would assume Tuner 0,
> > >but that does not seem to work. Not being a TV expert, it is not that
> > >obvious on which one to select.
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > How have you got the cable connected to the 350? i.e which physical 
> > input on the card?
> > In my setup I've got a normal terrestrial coax connected to tuner0, and 
> > my cable box connected to Composite0 (via a SCART <--> SVID adapter
> 
> Don't have a cable box, never have had for over 10 years now. Have the
> cable hooked directly to the tuner input on the card.
> 
cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg now works, but to watch tv from mythfrontned,
I get a black screen and the only way out is to kill it. I get the
following message from the mythbackend

2006-02-04 19:29:16.632 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-02-04 19:29:16.652 Unknown video codec
2006-02-04 19:29:16.652 Please go into the TV Settings, Recording
Profiles and
2006-02-04 19:29:16.653 setup the four 'Software Encoders' profiles.
2006-02-04 19:29:16.653 Assuming RTjpeg for now.
2006-02-04 19:29:16.653 NVR: Error, unknown audio codec
2006-02-04 19:29:16.667 NVR: Won't work with the streaming interface,
falling back
VIDOCGMBUF:: Invalid argument

Probably setup with mythtv-setup which is rather cryptic and have tried
both composite0 and tuner0, same thing. Is there a sample setup
somewhere that one can look at?

BTW, how do you change channels in mythtv when viewing a channel (If I
ever get to that point)?

Art



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