Mike - in response to your suggestions: 1. I have tried all frequency tables us-cable us-cable-hrc and us-bcast, neither produce any real reults.
2. I am using an RG-6 cable (even though I have no idea what the difference would be, the cable says RG-6 on the side of it). 3. I do not believe signal strength is an issue. The only split I have is for my internet connection - removing the split made no difference. I got a signal amplifier, that also did not make any difference. When I connect the cable that I use for the tuner to a normal TV the picture looks perfect. I had been trying two different scenarios, one trying to tune to channel 3 and use my cable box - the other just using basic analog cable. That is the reason for the discrepency - before I was connected through a VCR&Cable now I am connected directly to basic analog cable. 4. The latest ck100zz build that Axel has published is 48.4, there is nothing above that. Where shold I get the latest ck100zz builds of ivtv? Do you know which snapshot of v4l is needed for the correct tuner? (I have already tried 20041005-125709-53 AND 20041207-131757 with the same results). Has ANYONE gotten these type 50 tuners to work correctly? The behaviour I am experiencing is that I will be able to tune a station well for a maximum of 20 seconds then it becomes unwatchable. The quality during those 20 seconds seems good - but it does not last. Fine tuning does not help. If I tune away from that station then go back the quality does not return. If I restart the machine, and tune to that station again using the same frequency - then I will get the same 20 seconds of good quality. So it seems like a reboot has some sort of affect on the ability to tune. Is it me, or does this seem kinda weird? Any help is greatly appreciated. -peter <reply-signature name="Peter Eacmen" email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 2:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] Tuning issue with new type 50 PVR-250 - help Peter Eacmen wrote: >Ok. I have tried a bunch of different things and none seem to work. I >tried Hiroto's suggested patch to v4l against the latest snapshot - it >didn't seem to help. >... >However, now I am able to tune a station with decent quality for a few >seconds - but only for a few seconds. No matter how much fine-tuning I >do the station will not continually come in. >... >Does anyone have any more ideas? Anyone want to trade their >early-model pvr-250 for a brand new type 50? ;) > > 1) Make sure you're using the correct frequency table (i.e. us-cable or us-cable-hrc). 2) Make sure you're using good RG-6 cable (not RG-59) and that it's securely fastened to the connector on the tuner. 3) Make sure you have a good strong signal. If you don't have the test equipment, a good way to do so is to buy a powered amp at a store that will let you return it and hook it up. Make sure the amp is hooked up as close to the source (i.e. the cable TV input to the house or the antenna) as possible, but definitely *before* any splitters or other loss-inducing devices. (I can't tell for sure if this applies to you since you initially were talking about a VCR outputting on channel 3 and now are talking about seeing "all the stations are at the frequencies I would expect"--which implies another source.) 4) Try to figure out why your system is installing 0.1.10-48.3_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc3.at instead of the current package of ck100zz (somewhere in the 52's or so). There were at least 3 threads on this very topic last week--check the archives--Axel and Jarod figured out what the problem is, but I don't know. ( http://www.poptix.net/ivtv or http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv ) It's quite possible that you got either a) an incorrect version of the video4linux snapshot which provides the updated tuner module or b) no tuner module from the (known working) RPM Axel has because 48.3 didn't seem to specify the pre-requisite. Once you get a good tuner module--and you won't get one from installing new versions of ivtv, it will work--provided you have a good signal. Mike ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
