[mythtv-users] Please help!

[Kevin Kuphal]

Tony Paterra wrote:

>Hey all I've shipped this one out a few times and really could use
>some help...  I had my myth box up and running quite well and now I
>have
>moved and switched cable providers...  I have a PVR-350 running with
>MythTV 0.16 on Slackware 9.1 and Time Warner digital cable as the
>source.  For the time being I am not putting the digital cable STB in
>the equation, I just have a splitter that is separates the Myth box
>and Data Direct is giving me only the Cable program guides, not the
>full 1000 digital cable ones.
>
>Now for the problem...  I went into myth setup and cleared out my
>configs (which cleared out the old channel database for me) and re-ran
>mythfill database to get everything I needed for the program guide.
>The behavior I'm now noticing is that my program guide works as
>expected, but that I am getting either very fuzzy channels or complete
>static when trying to watch live tv.  I have tried going back into
>setup and changing the frequency table settings to us-cable, us-bcast,
>and us-cable-hrc to no avail...  Any thoughts?
>  
>
Sounds like a signal quality issue.  What does the picture look like if 
you hook a TV to the signal input you have going into your MythTV box?  
What does another progam give you for quality inside your box like xawtv 
or tvtime?  Poor splitters and cable segments are notorious sources of 
signal problems.  Try putting the cable directly into your MythTV box 
and see if the signal improves.  If it does, your splitter or cable 
segment after the splitter is a problem.  

Kevin