[mythtv-users] PCHD3000 - Blank Screen when trying to watch live tv

[Mudit Wahal]

Your start channel is probably wrong. From your logs, it shows as
channel 3. You need to change that to an actual start channel.

On 2/6/06, Richard Shaw <rshaw2 at midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
> Ok...
>  I got the card installed (pcHDTV HD-3000)
> Got the firmware in the right place
> I downloaded the cvs version of dvb-apps and compiled it.
> Can tune with azap and watch in mplayer (but not xine, it always
> complains about the last entry in my channels.conf)
> Tried watching live tv and all I get is a blank screen.
> Dug down into that and found that it couldn't read ringbuf1.nuv. After
> searching google for an hour I ran across taking a look at the output
> from mythbackend which is as follows...
>
> 2006-02-06 22:51:15.007 New DB connection, total: 1
> Starting up as the master server.
> 2006-02-06 22:51:15.023 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2006-02-06 22:51:15.028 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started
> 2006-02-06 22:51:15.029 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend Oren
> OR51132 VSB/QAM Frontend.
> 2006-02-06 22:51:15.040 New DB connection, total: 3
> 2006-02-06 22:51:15.065 DVB#0 ERROR - Could not find dvb tuning
> parameters for transport 0
> 2006-02-06 22:51:15.066 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options for
> channel 3.
> 2006-02-06 22:51:15.075 New DB scheduler connection
> 2006-02-06 22:51:15.081 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1
> www.mythtv.org
> 2006-02-06 22:51:15.082 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2006-02-06 22:51:17.082 Reschedule requested for id -1.
> 2006-02-06 22:51:17.123 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.04 match + 0.00 place
> 2006-02-06 22:51:17.125 Seem to be woken up by USER
> 2006-02-06 22:51:25.089 New DB connection, total: 4
> 2006-02-06 22:51:25.091 New DB connection, total: 5
>
> I searched on the DVB#0 ERROR fields and didn't run across anyting
> particulary useful. Channel 3 is a real channel here.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated. Also, I would like to get xine
> working.. the error output is:
> "There is no input plugin available for 'dvb://<last entry in
> channels.conf>"
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
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