[SATLUG] MythTV question.

[Jeremy Teale]

On Jun 5, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Tom Weeks wrote:
>
> Sounds like a tuner misconfig.  I run the PVR500MCE and it runs  
> perfect.

You have a different card than I do.
>> Also, there are
>> problems with channel 45, for whatever reason. My adult swim looks
>> like crap :-(
>
> Sounds like your tuner settings are off.  Do this:
> # grep tuner: /var/log/messages|grep "set to"
> /var/log/messages:May 29 21:47:41 myth kernel: tuner: type set to  
> 57 (Philips
> FQ1236A MK4) by insmod option
> /var/log/messages:May 29 21:47:46 myth kernel: tuner: type set to  
> 57 (Philips
> FQ1236A MK4) by insmod option
>
> Once you see what you need to set it to, pop it into your /etc/ 
> modules.conf:
> ...
> alias tuner tuner-ivtv
> alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
> ## Added this to fix tuner a/v probs
> options ivtv tuner=57,57                # <--------------
> options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
> ...
>
Mine is the newer Samsung based card. I don't need to set the tuner  
type manually (70), it's all detected automatically in 0.6.
>> I'd recommend two 250's or 150's rather than a 500 if you have the
>> room on your motherboard.
>
> The 500 *is* two 150s.
> # grep -i "pvr" /var/log/messages|grep "#"
> May 29 21:47:45 myth kernel: ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #0
> May 29 21:47:46 myth kernel: ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #1
> ;)
>
Two 150s that don't function properly as two individual 150's  
otherwise would.