It's actually a direct coax to the PVR-250 box. I'm not using a cable box at all because I am using myth for it's recording and scheduling capabilities. I did try to manually tune some of the channels that came in but were still fuzzy, but I could not seem to clean them up as well as they used to come in.
-- Jason On Jun 1, 2006, at 8:02 AM, Paul Archer wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
