[mythtv-users] MythTV can't (safely) record UK Channel five

[Gary Dawes]

On 05/11/06, Jerome Hettich <jerome at hettich.org.uk> wrote:
>
> I have two myth boxes both with Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-T USB2 tuners.
>
> Both run atrpms packaged versions of myth 0.20 but one running on FC3
> and one FC4.
>
> The one running on Fedora Core 4 records all channels perfectly but
> since upgrading from myth 0.19 to 0.20 the FC3 box will never record
> anything on channel 5, abc1, QVC or anything else on multiplex A.
>
> The recordings seem to fail with different symptoms to John describes
> though. Any scheduled recordings on the FC3 box just produce a zero byte
> file (or few 100 byte files) rather than mythbackend crashing.
>
> I have found that switching to any of these channels through LiveTV does
> result in a few seconds of the channel being displayed (and a few
> seconds recorded) to file before this somehow stalls. So I assume this
> is actually a problem with DVB tuning method in 0.20 interacting with
> the DiBcom 3000 driver in 2.6.12-2.3.legacy_FC3.
>
> Jerome
>
>
>
>
> jonny Linux wrote:
> >
> >     Anyone running 0.20 in the UK and willing to try recording a
> >     program on
> >     Channel five through DVB-T?  (You don't have to watch it.)
> >
> >
> > Five works for me too. Just an idea - try recording abc1 or QVC
> > (they're on the same multiplex as Five). (again - you don't have to
> > watch that either ;-))
> >
> > Jonny
> >
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> I'm running mythtv 0.20 on knoppmyth, with 2 freecom DVB usb sticks with
> v4l and myth compiled by hand. Kernel is 2.6.15
>


Recording Five is fine on my box as it records all the various CSI variants
for the Wife, and I'd sharp get told if it didn't!

Try downloading and using the latest v4l snapshot and firmware files for
your cards

Gary
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