I finally figured out my problem! Thanks to all who helped. I hope that I will be able to return the favor some day. I acted on a lot of hints I got, but my problem came down to my lack of ability to communicate with people who know way more about how this all works than I do. The hint that I got that put me on the right track was this:
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 10:27 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:16 -0400, Michael Haan wrote: > > > Ah, there's the catch. The HD3000 can tune HD one of two ways - OTA > > via an antenna with the V4L drivers, or QAM (aka digital cable) via > > the DVB drivers. > > I have tried using both drivers. Neither works with Mythtv. As far as I > can tell, xawtv is using the V4L drivers (/dev/video0) which work fine > there. Well, it never occurred to me until tonight to forget the DVB drivers that everybody was telling me to use (which I assume only work with *digital* cable which I do not have, as I did state more than once), and forget the drivers that are for the specific card I have (pcHDTV 3000, and those drivers are probably an early version of the DVB drivers anyway), and use the generic V4L drivers. Poof! It worked. Probably when I first set up the card, I accepted the default which is V4L, which would explain why it worked at first. It was only when I tried to outsmart myself that I screwed things up. So if you don't have *digital* cable, you must use the V4L drivers. this is probably obvious to most people out there, but I beat my head against the wall for three days to learn that fact, so hopefully someone searching the archives someday will find this message and avoid the same large headache for themselves. > > > To tune regular analog cable you'll need a card like > > the PVR-350 V4L drivers with the pcHDTV 3000 work just fine for analog cable. --Greg
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