[mythtv-users] cannot find tuner in mythtv

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/09/2006 07:56 PM, Richard Molby wrote:
> catfish wrote:
>>> I'm following Jarod Wilson's Fedora MythTV documentation and I don't quite understand a step... during the MythTVsetup where you setup the tuner, is the tuner supposed to show up as a selection (as I am assuming from the official docs), or do I need to specify the device name myself, in which cae I have no idea what that may be, where do I find more info on this is it's available in the docs...
>> Well you need to know what capture card you have, set it up in linux 
>> then setup the card in mythtv. Do you know what TV Card hardware you have?
>>
>> I have a pvr-350 so I'll use that as an example. In Jarod's guide 
>> section 10 is how to setup the capture card. With my card's tuner is on 
>> /dev/video0.
>>
>> I assume you are stuck on "2. Capture cards" (and have already done 
>> General). You would choose "(New capture card)", select the Card type 
>> (mine would be "MPEG-2 encoder card (PVR-x50, PVR-500)".
> Okay, I have a bt848 based card that I'm using to practice with...

Make sure you select "Analog V4L capture card" when creating your new 
capture card.  Once you do--assuming you have properly loaded the card's 
drivers--you should see valid device names in the list.

Mike