[mythtv-users] PCHDTV-3000 2.0 settings

Mudit Wahal mwahal at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 06:08:47 UTC 2005


Greg,

So are you getting both analog and HD channels using the HD3000 card
on your comcast ? Woah .. I dont think anyone is able to do that yet,
you may be the first one :-)

>From what I've read, you can either use the analog section OR the HD
but not both ! But kudos to you !!! Post your findings on pchdtv.com
forum also !

BTW, if you just want OTA (over the air) HD stations, then DVB is the
way to go as v4l is not being supported in near future for HD stuff.

Thanks

Mudit



On 6/7/05, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
> I finally figured out my problem! Thanks to all who helped. I hope that
> I will be able to return the favor some day. I acted on a lot of hints I
> got, but my problem came down to my lack of ability to communicate with
> people who know way more about how this all works than I do. The hint
> that I got that put me on the right track was this:
> 
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 10:27 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:16 -0400, Michael Haan wrote:
> >
> > > Ah, there's the catch.  The HD3000 can tune HD one of two ways - OTA
> > > via an antenna with the V4L drivers, or QAM (aka digital cable) via
> > > the DVB drivers.
> >
> > I have tried using both drivers.  Neither works with Mythtv. As far as I
> > can tell, xawtv is using the V4L drivers (/dev/video0) which work fine
> > there.
> 
> Well, it never occurred to me until tonight to forget the DVB drivers
> that everybody was telling me to use (which I assume only work with
> *digital* cable which I do not have, as I did state more than once), and
> forget the drivers that are for the specific card I have (pcHDTV 3000,
> and those drivers are probably an early version of the DVB drivers
> anyway), and use the generic V4L drivers. Poof! It worked. Probably when
> I first set up the card, I accepted the default which is V4L, which
> would explain why it worked at first. It was only when I tried to
> outsmart myself that I screwed things up.
> 
> So if you don't have *digital* cable, you must use the V4L drivers. this
> is probably obvious to most people out there, but I beat my head against
> the wall for three days to learn that fact, so hopefully someone
> searching the archives someday will find this message and avoid the same
> large headache for themselves.
> 
> 
> >
> > >   To tune regular analog cable you'll need a card like
> > > the PVR-350
> 
> V4L drivers with the pcHDTV 3000 work just fine for analog cable.
> 
> --Greg
> 
> 
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