I'm really beginning to think this might be a time warner cable  
issue.  I had this box hooked up to an Adelphia Cable connection for  
10 months with the same config as I have now (I downgraded to ivtv  
0.4.0) and it worked fine.

But now that it's on a Time Warner connection, it's not working at  
all.  Does any know know if maybe time warner has changed it's  
freqancy table?  Could that be a possibility?

--

Jason


On Jun 1, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Jason Williams wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
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