On Monday 20 August 2007 21:03:26 Johan van der kolk wrote:
> I recently built a system using Fedora 7 and IVTV 0.1.0 using a
> PVR-500 with the notorious Samsung tuner.
>
>
>
> I am trying to use mythtv as my TV application. It seems that either
> my tuner is off by quite a bit or my cable company is not using exact
> "Europe-west" frequencies.
Cable companies rarely if ever use the Europe-west frequencies. It's
best to scan the whole frequency range explicitly.
> The same tuner works fine under Mediaportal in Windows. (The
> frequency indicated in mediaportal is the exact frequency of the
> channel, so no offset)
>
> I'm now wondering if this is my card (but works fine under windows),
> an IVTV or a mythtv problem is.
If anything it might be a kernel problem: the tuner code is part of the
kernel.
> As the IVTV driver does not seem to pass information on signal
> strength (correct me if I'm wrong)
Yes it does, although for TV the signal strength is either 0 or 65535.
> it could be hard for an
> application on top of IVTV to perform some kind of Automatic fine
> tuning, or Automatic frequency control, maybe that is a problem. Of
> course the hardware may not even provide that info, but considering
> the card is OK under windows I assume the PVR500 does and mediaportal
> uses it.
I'm not aware of any problems relating to frequencies. Which kernel
version do you use?
Regards,
Hans
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