On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:34 PM, James R. Van Zandt <j...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Bill McGonigle <b...@bfccomputing.com> writes: >> I don't have experience with that particular card, but in general you >> should be able to do: >> >> mplayer /dev/video0 >> >> or for your 500: >> >> mplayer /dev/video1 >> >> To see if the hardware and module are working. I have a 500 and it's >> given me no end of headaches, but for everything else besides the >> /dev/video0 part, which works pretty well. > > Thanks. I got the PVR-500 working again, by configuring it as > "Card Type: IVTV MPEG-2 encoder card". > > By the way, is there a way to get Mythtv to print out a plain text > version of its configuration? Screen dumps of the GUI are awkward to > include in email.
Off the top of my head, this is about as good as it gets: $ mysql -u mythtv -p mythconverg Password: *********** mysql> select * from settings; <copious amounts of config triplet spew> > My HVR-2250 still scans but doesn't let me see any programs. But I > have both capture cards connected to the same source which I call > "Comcast". > I'm now thinking I need to: > - configure two different sources (say, "Comcast-analog" and > "Comcast-QAM"), > - use different cards to scan them, then > - use the editor to manually delete all the analog channels from > "Comcast-QAM" and > - delete all the digital channels from "Comcast-analog" > > Is there a better way? Nope. You do indeed need two different lineups, one for the analog side, one for the digital side. It gets even more fun if you've also got a set top box in the mix and want to record channels on it that you don't get on either of the other two routes (I have this very setup myself). > I've also just discovered that in "watch TV" mode, the "M" key will > bring up a menu with a "switch source" option. iirc, 'y' cycles sources directly as well. > Not sure how to use > it, though. At first I thought it was "choose the source for this > channel number", but it doesn't seem to work that way. Yeah, its "choose a video capture source". Naming your cards w/useful descriptions helps here. > A simpler question: Comcast is using QAM-256 for the digital channels, right? Generally, yes. -- Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
