> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon Rogers > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:47 PM > To: Discussion about mythtv > Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000: Questions from a MythTV newbie > > David, > Thanks for the reply. I think my question was HOW > to use the DVB drivers in Myth. When I install the > DVB drivers, several DVB device nodes appear, but when > I tell Myth that I have a DVB card installed it tells > me that it couldn't open the card. I believe the > reason for this is simply that Myth is looking for > certain device nodes set up in a certain way and I > have no idea how Myth is trying to read the card. Any > ideas? > > Thanks, > Brandon > > --- David Maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think you should use the DVB driver, don't worry > > about testing it with > > another program, if it's working myth will recognise > > it when you select > > the right card type in mythtvsetup and allow you to > > scan for channels. > > One tip though, make sure mythbackend is not running > > when you set the > > card up in mythtv, or else it won't be able to scan > > for channels, the > > card will be busy. > > > > > > Regards > > > > David Maher > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of David Sims > > Sent: Friday, 22 July 2005 12:03 PM > > To: Discussion about mythtv > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000: Questions > > from a MythTV newbie > > > > > > Take a look at this thread: > > > > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/135131? > > > > do=post_view_threaded > > > > Sounds like you might have the same problem. > > > > I think the long term answer is to figure out how to > > use the dvb > > drivers. I'm still using the v4l drivers with my > > hd-3000, because > > that's what I got working first and haven't taken > > the time to get the > > dvb drivers working. I've had difficulty like you > > have with them, but > > I honestly haven't spent much time on it. > > > > - David Sims > > > > On Jul 21, 2005, at 10:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > mythtv-users mailing list > > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > > > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
I would recommend using the 2.6.12 kernel as the dvb drivers are in the source. There is a guide on the pchdtv site that will tell you which modules you need to select when compiling your kernel.
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