On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 08:51 -0500, David Erickson wrote: > Correct me if i'm wrong but if you put the output of your digital cablebox > into the tuner than the only thing you will ever see should be channel 3 > since that is all the cablebox will output. You would then tune on the > cablebox itself with an IR transmitter to change channels automagically. > Or i just skip digital all together since the digital cable for Adelphia > sucks and just put the analog signal directly into the tuner and record > everything i need. > > Dave > > > I am running the coax out from a digital cable box into the tuner of a > > PVR 250 and I can't get it tuned in at all. I have been running > > `/usr/lib/ivtv/ptune-ui.pl & mplayer /dev/video0` and trying all > > different combinations. Things definitely change and range anywhere > > from a black screen to a screen with wavy colors, to regular old snow. > > The tuner > > shows up as a type 2 and I added that option to modprobe.conf: > > > > # ivtv modules setup > > alias char-major-81 videodev > > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv > > options tuner type=2 > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > > Brad > >
Yeah, I would think it would be channel 3 or 4 as well, but I don't get anything but snow. I have tried ntsc-cable, ntsc-bcast, and ntsc-hrc all on channels 3 and 4 but nothing. Thanks, Brad
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