[mythtv-users] Cannot change channels on DVB card while watching live TV.

Erik Jensen eriksjunk at laurelwoodart.com
Tue Aug 26 17:26:38 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Erik Jensen
<eriksjunk at laurelwoodart.com>wrote:

> I know what I have to do to tell mythtv what they are.  The problem is that
> I first have to figure out what they are myself, which is hard to do when I
> cannot change the channel.
>

I apologize.  Upon rereading, that sounded much more curt than was intended.

>
>
> PS: Forgot to mention:
> MythTV Version   : 17722
> MythTV Branch    : branches/release-0-21-fixes
> Library API      : 0.21.20080304-1
> Network Protocol : 40
> Options compiled in:
>  linux profile using_oss using_alsa using_backend using_dbox2 using_dvb
> using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_iptv using_ivtv
> using_joystick_menu using_opengl_vsync using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr
> using_xv using_glx_proc_addr_arb using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
> using_opengl using_ffmpeg_threads using_libavc_5_3 using_live
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Brad DerManouelian <
> myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 26, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Erik Jensen wrote:
>>
>> > I recently purchased a Pinnacle PCTV HD card to use for Clear QAM
>> > tuning on my cable.  I installed it, hooked it up, and scanned for
>> > channels.  The problem I am having is that whenever I try to change
>> > the channel while watching TV, mythfrontend tells me that an "Error
>> > was encountered while displaying video."  I can record from the
>> > various channels just fine, and the result looks good.  Also, if I
>> > set the initial channel to the one I want to watch in mythtv-setup
>> > before I go to Watch TV, I can watch that channel.  But I still get
>> > an error if I try to change the channel while in the Watch TV
>> > section.  This is a pain, as I have lots of cable-only channels that
>> > show up as "UNKNOWN", which I need to identify in order to set up
>> > listings properly.
>>
>> If you can't identify them with a scan, you'll need to edit the
>> XMLTVID's of each channel to match what channel it is in your listing
>> source.
>>
>> No idea about your card-specific questions. Try running some dvb tools
>> to check for signal to noise ratio, signal strength, etc and see if
>> that's why it's not getting a lock immediately.
>>
>> -Brad
>>
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>
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