[mythtv-users] can't tune to S-Video on startup with pvr-150 card (SVN - 14932)
Michael Rice
mikerice1969 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 23 07:01:11 UTC 2007
On Nov 22, 2007 8:23 PM, Irumbo Mateene <imateene at hotmail.com> wrote:
> The problem is not the channel change script, it still works ok. Here is
> what I discovered: for some reason the channel list is much smaller than it
> should be. My cable provider has a little over 300 channels. The internal
> list of channels in mythtv ( \lib\libmythttv\channel.cpp ) for my S Video
> input should have at least 100 channel entries. I use my S Video input to
> record shows that comcast is encrypting. The way I set it up is to have
> almost all the channels I receive assigned to this input.
>
> I have to use the mythfilldatabase --remove-new-channels method to allow me
> to use 1 single lineup to feed 3 different inputs. It is possible that
> mythfilldatabase maybe the culprit and is not deleting this properly.
>
> in this specific case my s-video input has only 82 channels (1-82) ( i
> tweaked the code a bit to see what was happenning .. ) . The channel I was
> trying to tune to was scifi chan 160, I tried tuning to chan 57 on cnn, and
> it was picked up as it was within the range of 1-82.
>
> I will try tweaking my lineup so it only uses s-video to see if this
> addresses my problem. If so then possible I didn't use the mythfilldb
> process properly or it has since broken ...
Well the first thing to try is "Delete ALL capture cards" and "Delete
ALL video sources" and re-add and reconnect inputs. Make sure you use
"Delete ALL" button instead of Deleting each separately.
Something is mis-configured and the best way to fix that is to start
from scratch.
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