[mythtv-users] 2nd tuner HD-3000 card

[Michael Jung]

I am trying to add a pchdtv HD-3000 card to my existing Myth setup, and for the life of me I can't figure out how to get it to work.  Can somebody provide some advice?

Current setup is:
 Athlon 2200+ 
 MSI K7N2GM2-LSR nForce2 board 
 512MB of RAM 
 64MB Geforce MX 440 card 
  Hauppauge PVR-250

Distro is Fedora Core 4, kernel is 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4. 

This setup has been running about 3 weeks with no problems.  The PVR-250 is set up to control my Motorola DCT2xxx series cable box via serial port.  It's outputting via the MX440's S-Video port to a standard defintion TV.  Sound is output from the motherboard's stereo out into the TV.

For the HD-3000, I'd like to use it to capture OTA signals.  I'd like to both record them and watch live TV on it, both output to my standard definition TV.  The coax input is hooked up to a Zenith Silver Sensor.  I'm in Los Angeles, CA and according to antennaweb I'm 25 miles away from the towers.

I installed the card and copied the firmware in.  This stuff seems to load fine.  I tried testing with dvb-apps and I was able to get a channels.conf of several channels.  azap is able to lock into several of these channels with signals around 3xxx to 8xxx.

When I try to cat /dev/dvb/adaptor0/dvr0 > test.mpg, it only works sometimes.  Sometimes it writes a huge file and sometimes it writes a relatively large file for the same amount of time.  When it works, I can play it using mplayer test.mpg and get sound but no video, and I can play it using xine test.mpg and get video but no sound.  I'm assuming (perhaps wrongly) that the card itself is fine and I just need to fix some configuration stuff in mplayer and xine at some point.

Now, onto MythTV.  I set up a 2nd lineup in Zap2It that contains just digital channels with the account I use currently.  That lineup is configured as a 2nd video source in mythtv-setup.  I set up the card as a DVB card, and assigned it to that video source.

When I launch MythTV, I can now see the digital channels in the program listings guide.  When I go to Watch Live TV, the PVR-250 comes up.  I hit Y, then the screen goes blank for awhile, the it goes back to the MythTV menu.

mythbackend.log looks like this:

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2006-03-09 21:41:07.177 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend Oren OR51132 VSB/Q
AM Frontend.
2006-03-09 21:41:07.182 DVB#0 ERROR - Unable to find channel in database.
2006-03-09 21:41:07.187 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options for channel 
.
2006-03-09 21:41:07.191 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully (using TS mode)
.
2006-03-09 21:41:07.196 DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your channel s
etup.
2006-03-09 21:41:08.202 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:09.210 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:10.219 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:11.226 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:12.234 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:13.242 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:14.250 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:15.258 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:16.266 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:17.274 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:18.282 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:19.291 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:19.291 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:20.298 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:21.306 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:22.254 Couldn't read data from the capture card in 15 seconds. Stopping.
2006-03-09 21:41:22.315 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:22.331 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2006-03-09 21:41:23.326 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2006-03-09 21:41:23.340 Closing DVB recorder
2006-03-09 21:41:23.343 Closing DVB channel

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I have tried Googling for various error messages and have not come across anything that I understand.   I am relatively new to Linux (about 3 weeks).

Where do I even begin to start troubleshooting this?

Thanks for any advice you can provide.

		
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