[mythtv-users] Can't Get pcHDTV-5500 To Work With MythTV

[mythtv mythtv]

> The fact that it works fine with mplayer and tvtime suggests that it
 is
> not a driver problem.  The card WORKS - both digital and analog
 parts.
> It just doesn't work with MythTV for some reason.
>
> I installed from the Fedora Core 6 RPMs, I did select DVB DTV Capture
> card (v3.x) in the configuration

Just got back from three days out of town with no Internet access, so
didn't get a chance to reply sooner.

If both sides of the card work on mplayer and tvtime, it's not a driver
problem.

I have two 5500s in my combined BE/FE system running Mandriva 2007
 x86-64.
 Both sides of both cards work fine (though I admit that the analog
picture quality isn't as good as I'd like).  A previous poster is
 correct
- you set it up as a DVB card and then set up the analog portion under
"analog settings" in Mythtv-setup.

Now, what took me the longest time to figure out is that you need to
 set
up two different sets of channels, one for each side (and being in the
 US,
I had to set up two Zap2It accounts to grab their respective data).
  Once
I had that set up, I was good to go.

If need be (I'm not on that machine at the moment), I'd be happy to
 list
my "analog settings" if anyone wishes.

Bob
Well I am going to bite the bullet here.  I stand corrected on my previous statement that my HD-3000 didn't work with debian etch.  I realized that I didn't have the firmware in /lib/firmware.  Once I installed it in there everything worked good.  I found out about the firmware by running

dmseg

after running the channel scanner in mythtv-setup.  It said "firmware not found", or something like that.  So for the card not working in debian it was my fault.

But I had the firmware and everything install on FC6, same machine, with the files still there and I just checked to make sure.  And the scanning would work with the command line scanning, just not mythtv.  I never tried the command line scanning on debian, which was the reason why I never noticed the firmware wasn't there.  So i used atrpms for my FC6 setup and apt repos for my debian setup.  The main difference I see between the two is there kernel version of 2.6.18-4-k7 on debain and a kernel version of 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 on FC6.  Now the FC6 configuration was working fine until I moved, and then did a yum upgrade, which did the kernel to that version, and then the HD stuff stopped working.

So I still think something is/was messed up with fedora mythtv atrpms and HD-3000's.  At least the last time I tried.  It is working is debain now with an older kernel, so now I am back up and running.
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