Well, I think that I've gotten it to work, but not in a way that most people can use:
After recompiling the tuner module with the patch discussed earlier, and using the firmware from the Hauppauge driver disk (driver version 2.0.43.24054) I was a point where some of the channels looked better than others, and all 4 tuners (two PVR-500s) seemed to perform differently. The final step to make everything work was to amplify the signals significantly. In my case, the RF signal is coming from a bank of RF modulators (this is a university project, NOT a home setup), so I boosted the gain out of each modulator to it's maximum. This would clear up the channel I was viewing, but crosstalk continued to be a problem, so I reset the modulators to even channels (2,4,6,8, etc..) to give more seperation. All in all, it works, and I'd like to thank all the guys to helped me tweak the system to get to this point; but my advice to anyone considering a PVR-500 would be to plan on buying a good signal amp such as the one that Lonnie suggested below in order to make it work. If that doesn't sound appealing, just use PVR-150s or wait for Hauppauge to put a better tuner on this card. Jon Larson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Larson Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 3:34 PM To: User discussion about IVTV Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] heavy snow/static on PVR-500 using ivtv .70 driver. Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 09:25 -0700, Jon Larson wrote: > >> I'm confused.. Is this likely to be a bug with the hardware, >> software, or just my setup? Are there others on this list to have a >> "Samsung TCPN 2121P30A" working fine, or is everyone having trouble with that tuner? >> > > I have a Phillips based PVR-500 and the Samsung 2121P30A (2221P30A > after the patch) based PVR-500. Between the quality patch from Hans, > and a Motorola cable amp, I now have just as good (or at least real > close) quality on the Samsung as on the Phillips. The patch had made > a difference, but the cable amp made the biggest difference. It > appears that the Samsung tuners are much more sensitive to signal levels (ie. > they need more). > > I got a Motorola BDA-100S1 from Ebay on someone's advice (I think from > this list). It's the first cable amp that has actually made a > difference... even for my "regular" TVs. > > Lonnie Borntreger > > > Thanks for the advice, Lonnie. I'm giving this a try along with re-compiling the tuner module before I return these things. I'll let everyone know what I find. Jon _______________________________________________ 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
