On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Dhimiter Bozo wrote: > nothing seems to work. the only way for me to get a stream is to connect the > capture card straight to the cable from the wall. the problem there is that > i don't get any premium channels. when i connect the card from the cable box > out i get nothing. > at the moment i'm not even testing with mythtv at all. i'm setting VLC to > point to the campture card. as i said earlier, i get a stream when the card > is connected straight to the wall but not when it's connected from cable > out. > any ideas?
Dhimiter: I re-read your original message, my first response, and then looked as your message above. Best I can tell you is that given what you've already shown, the driver is working perfectly. The fact that mplayer detected a 720x480 stream is a "smoking gun" clue that it's getting a stream. The fact that mplayer then failed to display it and spat out codec errors is a sign that mplayer was set up wrong. At least that's how I interpreted your earlier message. Reading your followup post, you're saying that now you are able to get non-premium channels to stream when you plug the pvr usb2 directly into your cable outlet (so I assume you got mplayer to work now...), but nothing when going through your cable box. Well that once again proves that the driver is working. Really, if you can tune and stream ANY RF channel with the pvr usb2 then the hardware, the driver, and your app are all working. If problems start when you insert the cable box in between then there has to be something wrong with the signal being sent from the cable box. I of course can't diagnose that since I have no idea what your cable box is, how your cable system is set up, what kind of DRM the box might be enforcing, how you have the cable box connected to your pvr usb2 hardware, etc. Working from first principles I suggest you plug something ELSE into that cable box (using the same output that you are plugging into your pvr usb2 hardware) and verify that you can get a signal and that you are tuning the expected channel(s) to get that signal. You didn't say before how you were connecting the cable box to the pvr usb2. Are you using the RF connection and just tuning channel 3 (or 4 or whatever channel the box is sending on), are you using the RF connection and just expect the box to pass the signal through unmolested (perhaps that isn't working?) or are you taking a composite or s-video signal from the cable box into the pvr usb2? Again, from everything you've described to me, the pvrusb2 driver and your hardware are working fine. Seems like you are just not operating it correctly with the cable box or that your cable box is doing something you don't expect. -Mike -- Mike Isely isely @ pobox (dot) com PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
