[mythtv-users] mythtv with a pvr-350 on fedora 4

[Michael T. Dean]

Leigh wrote:

>Dan Adams wrote:
>
>>Hey, I've got a new pvr-350 and I'm trying to test the video by having
>>mplayer read from /dev/video and changing the channels with ivtvctrl.
>>Right now I can get video (which is kind of poor) on channels 5 and 6
>>but every other channel is just static. I know the cable connection is
>>good and I'v not going through a cable box or anything. Any ideas? Your
>>help would be *greatly* appreciated as I haven't really been able to
>>find anywhere with a solution to this. Thanks!
>>
>Apologies if you've already done this, but have you tried the various 
>different frequency tables?
>I was just trying to find a better 'version' of a channel myself earlier 
>actually (UK based).
>
>something like
>ivtv-tune -t europe-west -c 65 
>for example, at my location would tune to channel 65 out of the 
>europe-west allocation, which happens to be Channel 4 in the UK .
>
This is almost definitely the problem.  Your cable company is probably 
using US cable HRC.  While you can continue your testing with MPlayer, 
you could just as well continue with the Myth setup.  Once you get Myth 
in place, it's easy to select HRC.

Mike