Greetings, I've got a WinTV HVR-1600, and I've gotten the cx18 driver to load but I'm not able to get it to tune any digital channels. On the analog side of the card with v4l, I do get video when doing "cat /dev/video1 > test.mpg" but the quality is VERY poor. In MythTV backend setup using the channel scanner on DVB0, the tuner is unable to lock any channels (it should pick up ~10 channels).
This is on a Pentium 4 model 603 (3Ghz HT), i915G chipset, with the latest cx18 driver as of 7/10/08 at 23:41 CST. OS is MythBuntu 8.04LTS, with all updates applied. The card is loading properly, from what I can tell: [ 55.550747] cx18-0: Initializing card #0 [ 55.550751] cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card [ 55.550778] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 [ 55.550793] cx18-0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) [ 55.551038] cx18-0: cx23418 revision 01010000 (B) [ 55.733257] tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 74041, rev C6B2, serial# 2720263 [ 55.733262] tveeprom 1-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-29-82-07 [ 55.733265] tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is TCL M2523_5N_E (idx 112, type 50) [ 55.733268] tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08) [ 55.733271] tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is CX23418 (idx 38) [ 55.733273] tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is CX23418 (idx 31) [ 55.733276] tveeprom 1-0050: has no radio, has IR receiver, has IR transmitter [ 55.733278] cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600 [ 55.733280] cx18-0: VBI is not yet supported [ 55.841794] tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1) [ 55.841864] cs5345 1-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0) [ 55.843326] tuner-simple 2-0061: creating new instance [ 55.843330] tuner-simple 2-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N) [ 55.844021] cx18-0: Disabled encoder IDX device [ 55.844061] cx18-0: Registered device video1 for encoder MPEG (2 MB) [ 55.844066] DVB: registering new adapter (cx18) [ 55.937293] MXL5005S: Attached at address 0x63 [ 55.937300] DVB: registering frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend)... [ 55.937376] cx18-0: DVB Frontend registered [ 55.937417] cx18-0: Registered device video2 for encoder YUV (2 MB) [ 55.937452] cx18-0: Registered device video3 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB) [ 55.937456] cx18-0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge HVR-1600 [ 55.937501] cx18: End initialization The DVB scan utility just shows this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/atsc/us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256 scanning /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/atsc/us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256 using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' >>> tune to: 57000000:QAM_256 WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!! With the same error reported for every channel. I don't know if my cable system is actually QAM64 though, and there's not a scan template for QAM64. I also tried the MythTV scanner with every combination of frequency table, starting frequency, and QAM mode. None resulted in any channels found - it's like the cable isn't even plugged in (but yes, it is, and I have replaced it *twice* so it's extremely unlikely to be a wiring problem). I'm not sure if this is an issue with the driver, or I'm just not getting something right. This is the first time I've tried to use an ATSC/QAM card with Linux. It may be worth noting that there is also a PVR-150 installed in this machine, and it is working absolutely perfectly. I'd appreciate any suggestions for things to try. My goal is to get unencrypted QAM channels to be available to MythTV. Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advice. - Nick _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
