Thanks alot for your help Rutger. I'll try this out and see if it helps.
Something just dawned on me... Does MythTV use "ivtvctl" or "test_ioctl" for setting channels? It seems as if "test_ioctl" was deprecated recently and now only returns a message stating we're supposed to use "ivtvctl" instead. Could this be the source of this issue? If so it seems almost trivial to fix...
My version of MythTV was release 2004-09 and the ivtv version I'm running is dated 2005-01 so perhaps "test_ioctl" has been replaced by "ivtvctl" just now?
Can some enlightened soul please inform us if this is way off?
Kindly, Didde
On Jan 24, 2005, at 11:56, Rutger Hendriks wrote:
On Monday 24 January 2005 11:40, Didde Brockman wrote:While running MythTV (watching Live TV) set on channel "1", "ivtvctl
--get-freq" reports the same frequency as when I switch to channel "2"
in MythTV. Shouldn't this value differ between the various channels? It
seems as if MythTV cannot interact with the card hence only tunes into
one channel (which only consists of static). I have confirmed this by
using "ptune.pl" to change the current frequency while watching Live TV
and _then_ it actually changes the value returned by "ivtvctl
--get-freq" and of course the channel is displayed.
Can anyone fill me in on what's going on? I'm way lost and near the point of giving up as I have browsed the forums, mailinglists etc. to no avail.
Kindly, Didde
Hi Didde,
I had the same problem, MythTV really didn't do anything it seemed, the
ivtvctl --get-freq never changed. I fixed it by instructing mythtv to use an
external channel changing program and I then wrote this program to run
ptune.pl and this worked like a charm
Probably we both failed to see a point, but as a dirty solution it might help
you.
here is my external program $cat /usr/local/bin/mythchannelchange ptune.pl --freqtable custom -c $1 2>&1 >>/tmp/chan
Hope this helps,
Greetings Rutger
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