[mythtv-users] Re: One tuner on PVR-500 (was Re: PVR-500 configuration)

[Stefan Wrobel]

Good idea about testing it in Windows, I thought it just couldn't be one 
broken tuner out of two, I figured it had to be the whole card or nothing, 
but man was I wrong. Let me tell you, it is really killer living without my 
card for this long. I figured they'd have it right back to me, but of course 
they mailed it to the wrong address, and I wasn't able to get the UPS 
tracking number out of them until it had already been sent on its way back 
to NY (and I live in SoCal), so it'll be about a month without my card by 
the time it gets back. Having only one tuner I'd gotten quite adept at 
finding all of the odd, middle-of-the-night rerun times for shows, but I 
figured with the new season coming up here and the fact that the major 
networks hardly rerun their shows like cable ones do, I might as well get it 
RMA'd before it drives me nuts.

Stefan

P.S. Sorry about the name confusion...

On 9/16/05, Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:52:46PM -0700, Stefan Wrobel wrote:
> > Eolake,
> 
> It's Dave, actually... My .sig is just a quote from Eolake (and is
> seems that the article I'm quoting has disappeared, so I need to find
> a new .sig anyhow).
> 
> > I had the same problem and thought that it was a configuration problem. 
> I
> > tried and tried and tried to get it to work, but finally I got wise and
> > fired the card up on a windows box ... the 2nd tuner was dead.
> 
> I have considered the possibility of a dead tuner... If that is the
> case, then I guess I'll just have to put 2 PVR-500s in my myth box
> since I won't want it to be out of commission while waiting for an
> RMA to go through. (As if my hard drive isn't filling up too fast
> with only one tuner already.)
> 
> > Hopefully both
> > tuners on this one will be good. Do both tuners show up on cat 
> /proc/pci?
> 
> My myth box's kernel has deprecated /proc/pci, but lspci shows both:
> 
> 0000:02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc
> iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
> 0000:02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc
> iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
> 
> > Both of mine did, but if i did ivtvctl -a -d /dev/video1 I got all sorts 
> of
> > screwy values for brightness, contrast, etc that clued me in that maybe
> > something just wasn't working right with the hardware.
> 
> Something like
> 
> Brightness = -475234752
> Contrast = -1054774144
> Saturation = -852037632
> 
> you mean? I was ascribing that to the card not having accepted the
> commands sent by the driver to initialize it, but I see now that, if
> I run ivtvctl more than once, I get different values for those three
> settings each time. That's not good... Guess I will need to try it
> on a Windows box and see what happens there.
> 
> --
> The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of 
> the
> White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important 
> that
> we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened.
> - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html)
>
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