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

[Richard Shaw]

Robert Tsai wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:04:14PM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
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>>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>"
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>Did you run mythtv-setup, set up the new card, and scan for channels?
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>--Rob
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    Yes, sorry I forgot to mention that. I was very tired when I wrote 
the email. I only have a short window to play on the computer between 
when my son goes to bed and I have to go to bed for work in the morning!

I've cleared out the card and inputs in mythtvsetup a few times and 
started over. This last time I got the scanning to work and it found 39 
channels while atscscan only found about 10. Many of them are the same 
network... e.g. WREG (3), WREG-DT (31), and WREGDT (3_1)

Thanks,
Richard