Neither. It makes the ioctl calls directly itself. I was having similar problems last night but set both chanid & frequency to be the same and then it worked. I dont think this is correct and couldn't work out what i'd done to fix it. I'll have more of a play tonight and try to get to the bottom of what i did to get it to work.
John --- Didde Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 been replaced by 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
