[mythtv-users] Problems with HDHomerun

Tom Lichti tom at redpepperracing.com
Tue Nov 21 17:03:06 UTC 2006


Greg Woods wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 10:30 -0500, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
>>  Also, make sure your video
>> source is not connected to another card (if that card input
>> receives a slightly different set of channels, you can get
>> untunable channels added to this card input's lineup).
> 
> I think this is my problem in a nutshell. Other than doing a channel
> scan, how do I *know* which channels are available to my HDHomerun?
> 
> The problem I have in particular is that I can do a channel scan, but
> then I cannot actually tune most of the channels that it finds. Instead
> I get a blue screen of "error encountered while displaying video". As of
> a few weeks ago, this would also crash the backend, but recent code
> improvements seem to have stopped the backend crashes at least. But I
> still get blue screens trying to tune channels that were found in a
> channel scan.
> 
> I am running the latest SVN, I update and recompile every couple of
> days. My cable system is using QAM-256.
> 
> --Greg

I get that behaviour when I try and tune encrypted channels. Out of the 
500 or so 'channels' it found during the channel scan, only about 10% 
were ones that I could tune. It took a LONG time to pare that list down....

Tom



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