[mythtv-users] HD-3000, FC4, PVR-250/500

[Mike]

Chris Lynch wrote:

> On 1/7/06, *Mike* <stuff at dustsmoke.com <mailto:stuff at dustsmoke.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Mudit Wahal wrote:
>
>     >Its channel_subchannel if you are viewing OTA stuff.
>     >Instead of watching liveTV, try recording an OTA HD channel from
>     the program.
>     >
>     >Also try this in mysql
>     >
>     >use mythconverg;
>     >update cardinput set startchan="2_1";
>     >(or whatever is your starting lineup in HD OTA list)
>     >
>     >
>     >
>
>     Also, make sure you have the hd-3000 setup as a dvb device and not a
>     hd-3000. If your channel scan doesn't go through and merge the
>     channels
>     from the transports to the zap2it list. You'll have to manually set it
>     up in mysql.
>
>     Read the 4th post down
>     http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/150073
>     <http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/150073>
>
>
> I have HD video in Myth and it's sweet looking!  Thanks to everyone.  
> Although, of course...
>
> I have no sound :(  Do I have to run a cable from the back of the 
> HD-3000 or is it embedded in the stream and something else is wrong?  
> Sometimes it cackles when I switch channels, but other than that 
> nothing.  My PVR-250 and 500 both have audio going just fine though.  
> Is there some special config I have to do to get the audio out from 
> the board?
>
> I am running audio out over SPDIF to an older SBLive - is it possible 
> my sound card is too crappy?  I see a lot of pre-buffering audio 
> messages on the frontend.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Chris


You shouldn't need a cable, it should be embedded. When you cat the dvr0 
device do you get sound with mplayer?

Its possible that your somehow attached/tuned to the wrong audio stream. 
You have both a audio and a video pid that you need to connect to. You 
can see those streams when you use dvbtraffic from dvb-apps after you've 
just tuned to the channel frequency. I had to go out and manually put 
them together on a frequency where I recieved 3 channels here in phx.

When you look at that channels.conf you should see the 2 numbers at the 
end. Thats the decimal value of video:audio. So if you convert those to 
hex you should see what stream it is connected to.from dvbtraffic. You 
should sort of know which ones are the video and which ones are the 
audio by the bandwidth. Usually you'll have something with a lot of 
bandwidth and thats the video, and after that you have soemthing with 
less bandwidth and thats audio. But that isn't always the case. I had to 
manually pull them apart until I matched it up in mythtv. But you 
shouldn't have to do any of this with OTA...... Normally it just scans 
them and gets it right I think. But I get crappy signal to our towers 
out here so I hanv't really had the chance to do it the 'easy way'.

On your tv playback option... Turn on extra audio buffering on the first 
screen. I think that might get rid of your crackling.

-Mike