[mythtv-users] mythtv with a pvr-350 on fedora 4

Dan Adams dan at ifactory.com
Wed Jan 11 14:22:47 UTC 2006


Okay, thanks. I'll give that a try when I get home tonight. I already
have the rest of my system pretty much ready to go (including mythtv) so
i'm psyched to get this working.

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 19:25 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Leigh wrote:
> 
> >Dan Adams wrote:
> >
> >>Hey, I've got a new pvr-350 and I'm trying to test the video by having
> >>mplayer read from /dev/video and changing the channels with ivtvctrl.
> >>Right now I can get video (which is kind of poor) on channels 5 and 6
> >>but every other channel is just static. I know the cable connection is
> >>good and I'v not going through a cable box or anything. Any ideas? Your
> >>help would be *greatly* appreciated as I haven't really been able to
> >>find anywhere with a solution to this. Thanks!
> >>
> >Apologies if you've already done this, but have you tried the various 
> >different frequency tables?
> >I was just trying to find a better 'version' of a channel myself earlier 
> >actually (UK based).
> >
> >something like
> >ivtv-tune -t europe-west -c 65 
> >for example, at my location would tune to channel 65 out of the 
> >europe-west allocation, which happens to be Channel 4 in the UK .
> >
> This is almost definitely the problem.  Your cable company is probably 
> using US cable HRC.  While you can continue your testing with MPlayer, 
> you could just as well continue with the Myth setup.  Once you get Myth 
> in place, it's easy to select HRC.
> 
> Mike
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