All, I've been scanning the archives of this list for quite some time now and I had a few questions regarding the pcHDTV 3000 and it's compatibility with Myth on Fedora Core 3. I've compiled the drivers xine-hd (comes with the pcHDTV card) and tested HDTV reception and NTSC reception. Both work great. I used xine to test the HDTV (ATSC) signals and tvtime to test NTSC. I am using the v4l drivers, not the DVB drivers for reasons I'll discuss in a second. When I load the v4l drivers (modprobe cx88_atsc) the cx88xx drivers (NTSC) load as well as the ATSC drivers. This creates several devices (duh), namely /dev/vbi0, /dev/video0, and (I think) /dev/audio0. The ATSC device is created as /dev/video1. To get xine to recognize /dev/video1 as the ATSC driver, I made a symbolic link to /dev/video1 called /dev/dtv. This works great. However, when I try to set up Myth to read this card (I am using Myth 0.18.1), the ATSC card is not recognized. I can set up NTSC, but if I erase all those card settings and try to set up an ATSC card, mythsetup just tells me that it couldn't find inputs for the device (I know that they are there, though, because xine works great). I have tried to every possible combination of Global TV settings (NTSC with standard TV, ATSC with HDTV, NTSC with HDTV, etc), just on a whim that it might work. So why am I not using the DVB drivers? When I load the pcHDTV DVB drivers (modprobe cx88_dvb), several devices are created (/dev/dvb0.dvr0, /dev/dvb0.frontend0, etc). However, I don't know how to use these devices and none of the programs from interpreting DVB seem to recognize or even look for these devices. Since, I could test and the v4l drivers and confirm that they work, I went that route. My system is built on the default FC3 load (kernel 2.6.9), one pcHDTV card, nVidia FX 5200, 2.8 GHz HT pentium 4, if that helps. I guess my real question is what MythTV is looking for to discover the v4l ATSC driver and if I should be using DVB drivers, how should I configure them? I installed Myth with the RPMs available on atrpms (myth-suite package). If anyone could clear up the confusion that I'm having, that would be great! I would hate to have to spend the time to rig up a pseudo-PVR replacement.
Thanks! -B
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