[mythtv-users] Nova T 500 Lock problem
Rob
rob at rob7122.demon.co.uk
Sat Sep 22 02:24:51 UTC 2007
Got my new Nova T last week, dropped it into my bittorrent server along
with a new hard drive and set to work installing ubuntu, got it
installed with the following specs
Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l
Kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
Followed this guide for the Ubuntu/myth install
http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_ubuntu.php and this one for the nova t
install http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI
I've checked the onboard amplifier is being fired up on startup and I've
used scan to get myself a channels.conf, I then got tzap and dvbstream
to get BBC ONE playing in mplayer flawlessly. tzap reported a constant
FE_HAS_LOCK so as far as I can tell linux itself and the drivers are
working.
Now the original myth version I had downloaded via apt-get for whatever
reason wouldn't find anything on a full scan, think it might have been
due to not setting the scan timeout high enough. But it would import
from channels.conf and would view live tv and record livetv no problem
BUT I couldn't get it to record any of the DVB Radio channels, it was
complaining about having audio channels when it wanted video channels.
After asking about on irc I realised I was using a fairly old version of
myth so did some hacking around and got a new version from the package
manager, I should point out at this point I'm no expert at ubuntu or
linux in general so I just followed some guides till it worked. Problem
was that this new version would do a full scan and find channels (with a
suitably extended scan timeout) but wouldn't display anything in live tv
or record anything, but importing from channels.conf wouldn't work
either, the error in live tv was "L__" Partial lock, the OSD reported a
42% signal during this. Meanwhile tzap/dvbstream still work fine.
So I hit another guide and pulled down a version from svn so at the
moment I'm running 0.21.20070910-2 but I'm experiencing pretty much
exactly the same problem, I can scan for channels, find em but I can't
view anything. So ticking everything off, I know the drivers are working
because I can view tv fine in mplayer, I know myth should work with it
because the old version worked if imperfectly but I can't get anything
to work with the newer version, I've searched through countless mailing
lists and googled everywhere but havn't as yet found anything to fix my
problem. So does anyone have any ideas? ;)
Rob
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