[mythtv-users] 0.24 PVR-350

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Ken,

Tuesday, January 12, 2016, 12:09:35 AM, you wrote:




> Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> Hoi Ken,
>>
>> Monday, January 11, 2016, 10:47:08 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Myth people
>>
>>> Please forgive this question about an old system. I have an 0.24 system
>>> on Centos 6 that has a number of DVB cards and a PVR-350 that worked
>>> well in the pre digital era, but I have never configured it on the 0.24
>>> setup.
>>> I wanted to capture the UHF Analog output from a Cable TV box. So I
>>> configured the PVR-350, which is /dev/video4, as an IVTV device, mapped
>>> the inputs and run mythtvsetup and it shows up as capture device 18.
>>> I've manually entered a channel number and a frequency but I get errors
>>> like:-
>>> 2016-01-09 19:23:52.619 Channel(/dev/video4) Error:
>>> GetCurrentChannelNum(801): Failed to find Channel
>>> 2016-01-09 19:23:52.637 Channel(/dev/video4)::TuneTo(801): Error, failed
>>> to find channel.
>>> If I tune the PVR-350 to the right channel with v4l2-ctl and run ffplay
>>> /dev/video4 I get the output I'd expect so the PVR-350 is working.
>>> I must have missed some setting somewhere - but what?
>>
>>
>> Which connection did you use in Input connections?
>> Depending on how you connected it, you have to use S-Video 1 or
>> Composite 1 NOT Tuner 1, if the cable box does the tuning!
>>
> Its the Tuner input I'm using as the signal from the Cable box is PAL-I
> on UHF at 735.25 Mhz. Even if my tuning was wrong I'd expect to see snow
> from the Tuner input but I get a black screen.

So you connected the cable box through the coax connection?

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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