[mythtv-users] HDTV via firewire/DCT6200 , records fine,
Christian Burger
christian.burger at abtg.net
Wed Nov 1 21:39:35 UTC 2006
On 10/31/06, Matt Goebel <matt at goebelnet.com> wrote:
>
> I was having problems with recording HDTV via a NEC based firewire
> card to a DCT-6200 cable box. It would record one show or allow me to
> watch live TV once before the "tuner" would stop working and I'd have
> to do a full reboot to get it working again. I was also seeing a lot
> of choppiness given the hardware I have. Attempting to fix all that I
> swapped the NEC based firewire card out for one with the TI chipset.
> Now it records without missing anything and the quality is much better
> (still not 100% perfect but up there). The new issue is that live TV
> doesn't work with that tuner! Other tuners have priority for recording
> unless the show is in HD (or on a digital cable channel). I obviously
> want to watch everything in HD then available so that card is the
> first on the list for live TV. So when I go into live TV it almost
> always attemps to use the firewire tuner, the screen goes black for
> ~10 secs, then it drops me back into the main menu. It doesn't let me
switch to
> another tuner etc.. either making live TV useless. I could reorganize
> the turner numbers to work around this but that's no fix. Any ideas
> on how I can get this working?
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>I had the same problem but I kinda of saw it as a feature to know when my
>firewire had stopped working :) For what it is worth I ended up fixing the
>problem by changing the order of cards in mythtv-setup. It would be nice if
>it automatically saw a tuner wasn't working and tried the next tuner.
I have this problem with my internal tuner cards and usb tuners. They used
to work in .19 but since upgrading to .20 I can only record shows, not watch
live tv. Any suggestions?
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