Dhimiter Bozo wrote: > hi Mike,i've connected the coaxial out from the cable box to the back of the > tv and that works. when i connect the cable box coaxial cable to the capture > card that does not work. i've even bypassed using mplayer and tried it > straight with VLC but no luck. i'm not really sure what you mean when you > say: "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."i have cablevision and the box is > from scientific atlanta explorer 4250HD. in the back it has hdmi out, > component out, and coaxial in and out. I've connected the tv to both, hdmi > and coaxial out and both outputs work. when i plug coaxial out in the > capture card i get just snow flakes, no sound even. could it be that the > capture card is not compatible with this cable box? or maybe there is > something about the output format from the cable box that tripping the > capture card. i'm not very familiar with this hardware so it's hard to debug > it.
When you hook your cable box to the TV, what channel is the TV itself set to? Not the cable box, the TV itself. Sometimes cableboxes/VCRs/DVD players ram everything through a single channel (usually 3 or 4). If you're telling pvrusb2 to tune channel 37, but the cablebox is taking care of the tuning and then re-coding everything to channel 4, you're not going to see anything when pvrusb2 tunes to channel 37 - you'd need to tell it to tune to channel 4 instead (and all your channel changing would need to be handled through the cable box - e.g. you'll probably need an IR blaster). _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
