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 >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
