[mythtv] Tuner issues

Bernard Mentink ebike at paradise.net.nz
Sat Feb 21 02:02:06 EST 2004


Well my please at having 60% cpu was short lived... without doing anything 
to my setup
the next time I watched liveTV it was jerky and cpu back upto 100%, anyone 
know what gives?

Managed to change channels for about 10 seconds once, then no more, 
totally random/flakey
behavior ... help!

Cheers,
Bernie

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:38:39 +1300, Bernard Mentink 
<ebike at paradise.net.nz> wrote:

> Thanks Peter,
>
> That allowed me to tune in properly. I was confused by the name 
> "Frequency
> ID", the ID portion
> especially!
>
> I still cannot change channels like you with the channel up/down. Can
> anyone help
> here, is it a specific BT878 issue, setup etc.
>
> I also can use test_ioctl to change cannels and xawtv and mplayer work
> fine stand-alone.
>
> Hope someone can help, my live TV is great now (60% cpu interlaced on a
> 1.4G Duron).
> Just wish I could watch another channel.
>
> Also, selcting a channel from the EPG doesn't work either.
>
> Cheers,
> Bernie.
>
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:57:40 +0100, Peter <l-case at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> you have not set freqid in the channel table.
>> use the value from the xawtvrc file and it should work.
>>
>> I have an other problem with version 0.14 and ivtv(latest "stable") i 
>> can
>> change the channels with test_ioctl, but if i press channel up down
>> mythtv
>> cannot change. Somebody else experienced that? Any sugestions? On my
>> other
>> machine with analog bttv card it works.
>>
>> Bye Peter
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bernard Mentink" <ebike at paradise.net.nz>
>> To: <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
>> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:04 AM
>> Subject: [mythtv] Tuner issues
>>
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I' not sure if this is a bug, or user ignorance, please forgive if the
>>> latter.
>>>
>>> When I try to change channels in MythTV (using channel up/down)I get 
>>> the
>>> following errors in backend. As far as I can tell I have set up 
>>> channels
>>> correctly in the channel setup. Correct me if I am wrong, but I
>>> did the following:
>>>
>>> 1. After performing the other setups I exited out and did a
>>> mythfilldatabase.
>>> 2. Back in setup then started filling in missing fields in channel
>>> setup.
>>> 3. XMLTV ID was filled by the database, but no channels. Is this 
>>> normal?
>>> 4. I ran xawtv to find the channels that represented the XMLTV ID's and
>>> inserted them, is this the way to do it? I havn't found any docs on
>>> this.
>>> 5. Also what is the Frequency ID field, do I have to manually tell
>>> mythtv
>>> what frequency each
>>> channel is on?
>>> 6. I suspect I may have a database fill problem with tv_grab_nz,
>>> although
>>> all the channel information
>>> appears correct in EPG.
>>>
>>> I have attached the error message and printouts of the relevent 
>>> database
>>> fields.
>>>
>>> LiveTV is the last thing to get going on my box, all the other plugins
>>> work fine
>>> Excellent work.
>>>
>>> Look forward to the help on this on, I have been struggling for a
>>> week....
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bernard Mentink
>>>
>>> PS: My TV card is a WinFast XP2000 delux using the BT878 and I am using
>>> cvs of the 18th Feb
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------- backend log
>>> --------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 16      1[]:[]1020781343
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 16      1[]:[]1020780467
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 16      1[]:[]1020773658
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 6       128000
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 55       []:[] []:[] []:[] []:[] []:[] []:[] []:[]
>>> []:[...
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 2       ok
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 1       1
>>> Channel: '' was not found in the database.
>>> Most likely, the default channel set for this input
>>> (1 Television )
>>> in setup is wrong
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel "2" in
>>> the
>>> "setup" Channel Editor.
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel "3" in
>>> the
>>> "setup" Channel Editor.
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel "5" in
>>> the
>>> "setup" Channel Editor.
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel "7" in
>>> the
>>> "setup" Channel Editor.
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel "9" in
>>> the
>>> "setup" Channel Editor.
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel "10" in
>>> the
>>> "setup" Channel Editor.
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel "21" in
>>> the
>>> "setup" Channel Editor.
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel "22" in
>>> the
>>> "setup" Channel Editor.
>>> 2004-02-20 13:05:22 CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel "23" in
>>> the
>>> "setup" Channel Editor.
>>> 200
>>> etc etc
>>> --------------------
>>>
>>> mysql> SELECT * from channel;
>>>
>> +--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+-------+------+----------
>> +--------------+-----------------+-------------+----------+------------+----
>> ----+-------+----------+----------+---------+
>>> | chanid | channum | freqid | sourceid | callsign | name  | icon |
>>> finetune | videofilters | xmltvid         | recpriority | contrast |
>>> brightness | colour | hue   | tvformat | commfree | visible |
>>> +--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+-------+------+--------
>> --+--------------+-----------------+-------------+----------+------------+--
>> ------+-------+----------+----------+---------+
>>> |   2000 | 8       |        |        2 | TV2      | TV2   |      |
>>> 0 | NULL         | tv2.nzoom.com   |           0 |    32768 |      
>>> 32768
>>> |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |
>>> |   2001 | 4       |        |        2 | Prime    | Prime |      |
>>> 0 | NULL         | primetv.co.nz   |           0 |    32768 |      
>>> 32768
>>> |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        1 |       1 |
>>> |   2002 | 1       |        |        2 | TV1      | TV1   |      |
>>> 0 | NULL         | tvone.nzoom.com |           0 |    32768 |      
>>> 32768
>>> |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |
>>> |   2003 | 6       |        |        2 | TV3      | TV3   |      |
>>> 0 | NULL         | tv3.co.nz       |           0 |    32768 |      
>>> 32768
>>> |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |
>>> |   2004 | 11      |        |        2 | C4       | TV4   |      |
>>> 0 | NULL         | tv4.co.nz       |           0 |    32768 |      
>>> 32768
>>> |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |
>>>
>> +--------+---------+--------+----------+----------+-------+------+----------
>> +--------------+-----------------+-------------+----------+------------+----
>> ----+-------+----------+----------+---------+
>>> 5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
>>>
>>> mysql> SELECT * from capturecard;
>>>
>> +--------+-------------+-------------+-----------+----------+--------------+
>> ----------------+----------+--------------+--------------+--------------+---
>> --------------------+------------------+------------------+-------------+---
>> ------------+
>>> | cardid | videodevice | audiodevice | vbidevice | cardtype |
>>> defaultinput
>>> | audioratelimit | hostname | dvb_swfilter | dvb_recordts |
>>> dvb_sat_type |
>>> dvb_wait_for_seqstart | dvb_dmx_buf_size | dvb_pkt_buf_size |
>>> skipbtaudio
>>> | dvb_on_demand |
>>>
>> +--------+-------------+-------------+-----------+----------+--------------+
>> ----------------+----------+--------------+--------------+--------------+---
>> --------------------+------------------+------------------+-------------+---
>> ------------+
>>> |      1 | /dev/video  | /dev/dsp2   | /dev/vbi  | V4L      | 
>>> Television
>>> |          32000 | linux    |            0 |            0 |            
>>> 0
>>> |                     1 |             8192 |             8192 |
>>> 0 |             0 |
>>>
>> +--------+-------------+-------------+-----------+----------+--------------+
>> ----------------+----------+--------------+--------------+--------------+---
>> --------------------+------------------+------------------+-------------+---
>> ------------+
>>> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>>>
>>> mysql> SELECT * from cardinput;
>>>
>> +-------------+--------+----------+------------+-----------------+----------
>> --+-----------+
>>> ----------+-----------+
>>> | cardinputid | cardid | sourceid | inputname  | externalcommand |
>>> preference | shareable |      tunechan | startchan |
>>>
>> +-------------+--------+----------+------------+-----------------+----------
>> --+-----------+
>>> ----------+-----------+
>>> |           2 |      1 |        2 | Television |                 |
>>> NULL | N         |               | 6         |
>>>
>> +-------------+--------+----------+------------+-----------------+----------
>> --+-----------+
>>> ----------+-----------+
>>> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>>>
>>> mysql> SELECT * from videosource;
>>> +----------+---------+--------------+--------+------------+
>>> | sourceid | name    | xmltvgrabber | userid | freqtable  |
>>> +----------+---------+--------------+--------+------------+
>>> |        2 | Antenna | tv_grab_nz   |        | newzealand |
>>> +----------+---------+--------------+--------+------------+
>>> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>>>
>>>
>>
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