Another odd occurance, SciFi seems to tune in on 2 different  
frequencies.

432.000 Mhz
and
61.250 Mhz

The latter of the 2 seems to come in much better than the first.

Is that possible?

--
Jason


On Jun 2, 2006, at 8:51 PM, Jason Williams wrote:

> 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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