[mythtv-users] Loss of HD

[Alan Chandler]

On 07/07/12 08:21, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On 07/07/12 02:00, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>> On 7 July 2012 02:28, Alan Chandler<alan at chandlerfamily.org.uk>  wrote:
>>> I had to reboot my mythtv-backend server today for reasons unrelated to
>>> mythtv.
>>>
>>> Now I am backup, I find that the HD channels will not display (in 
>>> liveTV) or
>>> record.  The same tuner (Pinnacle 290e) will display non HD programs 
>>> fine.
>> what do you mean by will not display ?
>>
>> you mean it won't even show up in the channel list ? or that you can
>> see them but you can switch to them?
>>
> No - the HD channels are on the list.  If I am using the Input Source 
> for live TV (switch to it using menu) and switch to a normal channel I 
> get the channel properly.  However if I change an HD channel (which 
> you can ONLY do with this device as the source) Then the screen just 
> doesn't display anything except what appears to have been a graphic 
> from the previous channel I was watching.
>
> If I try and record an HD program, the recording length is 0 bytes long.
>
> I am wondering if its a hardware failure (given the non HD channels 
> work fine) - but I have no idea how to check that out and prove it.  
> Anyone and ideas?
>

OK I have discovered the problem.  The reboot changed the order of the 
devices. So now my HD USB stick was on adapter1 whereas when I first set 
the system up it was on adapter0, so what I thought was an HD capable 
USB device wasn't.  The actual USB device capable of HD was connected to 
in source which didn't include HD.

I think the time has come to investigate some udev persistant rules.


-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk