How are you connecting your cable box to your pvr-250 (via coax/tuner, composite, or svideo)?
I've found that with a similar setup (motorola cable boxes feeding pvr-150s), mythtv would not properly tune the cards to channel 3 when using the tuner input. I had to use ivtvctl to manually tune them. You might want to try that (assuming you're using the tuner input): ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -r 980 #(for channel 3) Paul 6:54am, Jason Williams wrote: > Ok, so here's something that I've sort of found through some > googling, but no one seems to know what's going on. I have a PVR-250 > and it's hooked up to a Time Warner cable line coming from Time > Warner Rochester. Hook it to my cable ready TV, golden, no > problems. Hook the cable to the PVR-250, problems. The channels > that do come in, are not all that clear. Anything under about > channel 20 or so, seems to not even be tuning to the cable station. > It seems to be trying to pull a local OTA broad cast or just plain snow. > > Tried setting the frequency tables to everything US related (us- > bcast, us-cable, us-cable-hrc, us-cable-irc) to no avail. The type > of "snow" that I get on the screen changes when I change the > frequency table, so I know it's adjusting, but still no dice. > > Now for the fun part, about 10 months ago, I had this all working > fine on a 2.4.x series kernel under FC1 with an older version of ivtv > (can't remember it right now, and am not at that computer.) I moved > out of the TWC area for a 10 month period, and then came back. I had > some issues with FC1 and MythTV, so I upgraded to FC3 and a 2.6.x > series kernel (2.6.12.5 with the red hat patches to be exact). I am > also running the latest stable version of the 0.4.x series of ivtv. > > I can get dmesg output and such when I get home from work (figured I > would start the thread now and see who bites). My next step is to > find the oldest version of ivtv that compiles with a 2.6 kernel and > try that. > > Anyone else have any thoughts/ideas/spasms on this? I've seen threads > around the net asking why a cable ready TV works and not a PVR, and I > sort of understand that. The thing I don't understand is why this > would've worked fine with an older version of ivtv and not this > version. Also, why almost all the references I've seen to problems > similar to mine, all seem to occur on a Time Warner line... > > Thanks > Jason > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > ------------------------------------------- "Looking down the barrel of a loaded gun... Just to see where the bullets come from!" --Screaming Blue Messiahs-- ------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
