[mythtvnz] IVTV problems

[Robert Fisher]

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 7:04 pm, Wade Maxfield wrote:

> >but using the tuner input we do not know how to tune it.
> >
> >Is there a howto for NZ? (which we can understand / follow)
>
> So are you stuck at how to test the tuner with Free-To-Air channels?
Yes
> Or how to get sky via the tuner?
No we can get Sky either with the component input or when we get our tuning 
sorted.
>
> The only way I know to get sky via the tuner is to set the capture
> card channel to 38 (or whatever channel you've set your sky decoder
> to use - it's in the advanced preferences of the sky decoder from
> memory.) I believe 38 is what quite a few of the sky installers use
> by default.
We use 26 and it now works.
>
> If it's FTA TV then you can use ptune-ui.pl to play round with.  Just
> find ptune-ui.pl (might be /usr/lib/ivtv/ )
> then
>
> ./ptune-ui.pl &
>   mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0

Perfect. Thanks
>
> Just don't change channels to quickly, as depending on your hardware
> there may be a noticable delay between changing the tuner, and then
> seeing it in mplayer
>
> http://zaf.geek.nz/projects/mythtv/channels.php
> has a list of channel ids if you need them.
Thanks but they were for Auckland. We are in Christchurch and they are all 
different
>
> The channels ids then get used in mythtv-setup, but you should be
> able to suss that out at the right time.
>
Thanks again.
Tuning is working fine now.

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Regards, Robert

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