[mythtv-users] Cannot watch tv from DVB-T stick

Johannes Reisinger hannes at linus.priv.at
Thu Feb 28 13:22:27 UTC 2008


Hi,

I am running MythTV 0.20.2 for some months without problems. I am using
a PVR-350.
Recently I tried to add a second capture device, an MSI MegaSky 580 USB
DVB-T receiver.
It works in principle; I scanned the channels to a channel.conf and can
watch TV with mplayer.
Then I tried to install it in mythtv. I first tried to scan the channels
- it worked; but when I tried to watch TV, I see only white noise on the
screen. I tried to import from channels.conf - same effect. I manually
deleted the corresponding entries from the sql-table 'channel' and
'dtv_multiplex' and imported channels.conf again - same effect.
I also corrected the 'mplexid' bug - same effect.

Watching TV from the PVR-350 works fine as before. In the
mythbackend.log, there is only one entry 'TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1, also
wenn switching from PVR-350 to MegaSky 580 channels - may this be an
indication that mythtv tries to use the PVR-350 also for the MegaSky 580
channels?

For reference, I append the channel and dtv_multiplex tables:
> mysql> select * from channel;
> +--------+---------+--------+----------+----------------+----------------+------+----------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+------------+--------+-------+----------+----------+---------+---------------+---------------+---------+-----------+-----------+----------+-----------------+-----------------+
> | chanid | channum | freqid | sourceid | callsign       | name           | icon | finetune | videofilters | xmltvid   | recpriority | contrast | brightness | colour | hue   | tvformat | commfree | visible | outputfilters | useonairguide | mplexid | serviceid | atscsrcid | tmoffset | atsc_major_chan | atsc_minor_chan |
> +--------+---------+--------+----------+----------------+----------------+------+----------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+------------+--------+-------+----------+----------+---------+---------------+---------------+---------+-----------+-----------+----------+-----------------+-----------------+
> |   2007 | 8       | 182250 |        2 | Austria9       | Austria 9      | none |        0 |              |           |          -2 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |               |             0 |    NULL |      NULL |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |   2009 | 7       | 196250 |        2 | Okto           | Okto           | none |        0 |              |           |          -2 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |               |             0 |    NULL |      NULL |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |   2011 | 5       | 210250 |        2 | PULS4          | PULS 4         | none |        0 |              |           |           0 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |               |             0 |    NULL |      NULL |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |   2012 | 2       | 217250 |        2 | ORF2           | ORF 2          | none |        0 |              | orf2.at-1 |           1 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        1 |       1 |               |             0 |    NULL |      NULL |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |   2022 | 6       | 161250 |        2 | TCA            | TCA            | none |        0 |              |           |          -2 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |               |             0 |    NULL |      NULL |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |   2025 | 3       | 238250 |        2 | VOX            | VOX            | none |        0 |              | vox.at-1  |          -1 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |               |             0 |    NULL |      NULL |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |   2026 | 9       | 168250 |        2 | 3sat           | 3sat           | none |        0 |              | 3sat.de-1 |          -2 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        1 |       1 |               |             0 |    NULL |      NULL |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |   2060 | 10      | 217250 |        2 | ORF2N          | ORF 2 N        | none |        0 |              | orf2.at-1 |          -2 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        1 |       1 |               |             0 |    NULL |      NULL |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |  13103 | 11103   | NULL   |        2 | ORF Sport Plus | ORF Sport Plus |      |     NULL |              |           |           0 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 |          |        0 |       1 |               |             1 |       8 |     11103 |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |  13102 | 11102   | NULL   |        2 | 3SAT           | 3SAT           |      |     NULL |              |           |           0 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |               |             1 |       8 |     11102 |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |  12123 | 10123   | NULL   |        2 | PULS 4         | PULS 4         |      |     NULL |              |           |           0 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 |          |        0 |       1 |               |             0 |       8 |     10123 |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |  12101 | 10101   | NULL   |        2 | ORF1           | ORF1           |      |     NULL |              |           |           0 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |               |             1 |       6 |     10101 |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |  12102 | 10102   | NULL   |        2 | ORF2 W         | ORF2 W         |      |     NULL |              |           |           0 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |               |             1 |       6 |     10102 |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |  12120 | 10120   | NULL   |        2 | ATV            | ATV            |      |     NULL |              |           |           0 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |               |             1 |       6 |     10120 |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |  12122 | 10122   | NULL   |        2 | ORF2 N         | ORF2 N         |      |     NULL |              |           |           0 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |               |             1 |       6 |     10122 |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |   2095 | 1       | 189250 |        2 | ORF1           | ORF 1          | none |        0 |              | orf1.at-1 |           1 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        1 |       1 |               |             0 |    NULL |      NULL |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> |   2096 | 4       | 203250 |        2 | ATV+           | ATV+           | none |        0 |              | atv.at-1  |           0 |    32768 |      32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |        0 |       1 |               |             0 |    NULL |      NULL |      NULL |        0 |               0 |               0 | 
> +--------+---------+--------+----------+----------------+----------------+------+----------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+------------+--------+-------+----------+----------+---------+---------------+---------------+---------+-----------+-----------+----------+-----------------+-----------------+

> mysql> select * from dtv_multiplex;
> +---------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------+------+----------+------------+-----------+--------------+-------------------+----------------+---------+---------------+-----------+--------------+------------+----------------+---------------------+
> | mplexid | sourceid | transportid | networkid | frequency | inversion | symbolrate | fec  | polarity | modulation | bandwidth | lp_code_rate | transmission_mode | guard_interval | visible | constellation | hierarchy | hp_code_rate | sistandard | serviceversion | updatetimestamp     |
> +---------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------+------+----------+------------+-----------+--------------+-------------------+----------------+---------+---------------+-----------+--------------+------------+----------------+---------------------+
> |       5 |        2 |         100 |      8232 | 794000000 | a         |       NULL | NULL | NULL     | NULL       | 8         | 3/4          | 8                 | 1/4            |       0 | qam_16        | n         | 3/4          | dvb        |              2 | 2008-02-27 23:36:24 | 
> |       6 |        2 |         100 |      8232 | 498000000 | a         |       NULL | NULL | NULL     | qpsk       | 8         | 3/4          | 8                 | 1/4            |       0 | qam_16        | n         | 3/4          | dvbt       |             33 | 2008-02-27 23:36:24 | 
> |       7 |        2 |         110 |      8232 | 578000000 | a         |       NULL | NULL | NULL     | NULL       | 8         | 3/4          | 8                 | 1/8            |       0 | qam_16        | n         | 3/4          | dvb        |              1 | 2008-02-27 23:36:30 | 
> |       8 |        2 |         110 |      8232 | 578000000 | a         |       NULL | NULL | NULL     | qpsk       | 8         | 3/4          | 8                 | 1/8            |       0 | qam_16        | n         | 3/4          | dvbt       |             33 | 2008-02-27 23:36:30 | 
> +---------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------+------+----------+------------+-----------+--------------+-------------------+----------------+---------+---------------+-----------+--------------+------------+----------------+---------------------+



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System:
Ubuntu 7.10
Mythtv 0.20.2
Athlon 64 X2
2GB RAM
PVR-350
MSI MegaSky 580



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