[mythtv-users] Unable to get past Main Menu of Frontend

[daryl]

At one time I did have very grainy video on Mythbuntu on the analog 
tuner of my Hauppauge 1600. Never did get anything on digital tuner. Now 
however, I can get nothing after a reinstallation. Heres my current 
situation...

I currently am able to watch tv with sudo mplayer dvb://.

Heres my dmesg | grep cx18, which I think looks good...

daryl at daryl-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep cx18
[   10.776033] cx18:  Start initialization, version 1.0.0
[   10.788581] cx18-0: Initializing card #0
[   10.788586] cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card
[   10.788966] cx18 0000:01:06.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC1] -> GSI 16 
(level, low) -> IRQ 16
[   10.788975] cx18-0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 
(was 32)
[   10.790875] cx18-0: cx23418 revision 01010000 (B)
[   10.987049] cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600
[   10.987051] cx18-0: VBI is not yet supported
[   11.186425] tuner 3-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1)
[   11.186468] cs5345 2-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0)
[   11.241538] cx18-0: Disabled encoder IDX device
[   11.241649] cx18-0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (2 MB)
[   11.241652] DVB: registering new adapter (cx18)
[   11.403318] cx18-0: DVB Frontend registered
[   11.403351] cx18-0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
[   11.403381] cx18-0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio 
(1 MB)
[   11.403384] cx18-0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge HVR-1600
[   11.403663] cx18:  End initialization
[   18.601844] cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-apu.fw firmware V00120000 
(141200 bytes)
[   19.175653] cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw firmware (158332 bytes)
[   19.181859] cx18-0: FW version: 0.0.74.0 (Release 2007/03/12)
[   20.378857] cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-dig.fw firmware (16382 bytes)

I am using an antenna.

When I configure Mythbuntu I go to capture cards>new card. The default 
shows "Analog V4L" and "probed info" shows Hauppauge 1600.
However, I am told that I need to use mpeg2. But when I choose mpeg2, 
the Hauppauge card is not shown by "probed info". I must use mpeg4, 
click "finish" and then go back to mpeg4 and change it to mpeg2. This is 
the only way to get mpeg2 to show my Hauppauge card. Then I go through 
the rest of the configuration and channel scan works well including the 
signal strength bar working.

Now, when I open the main menu of the frontend and click on "watch tv", 
the screen flashes but stays at the main menu.

If I configure the digital tuner by using DVB, it does show Hauppauge 
1600 but when I scan for channels then signal strength bar does not work.

For both analog and digital the same channels are detected although 
analog has signal strength and digital does not.

Any ideas what my problem might be? I hope my infomation is not to 
confusing.

Thanks,
Daryl...