[mythtvnz] Asus Mycinema won't tune in Mythtv

[Joel Wiramu Pauling]

Use VLC directly to access the card and known frequency.

On 21 January 2011 15:34, Brendan Dacre <bjdacre at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I've had this card a while and never could make it work in linux.  I
> forced the card to card=100 when auto-detection failed to get it right.
>  This was obviously not correct either.  Anyway, during the course of trying
> to get the T 500 I had bought going, I put it back into my mythtv box and
> found it auto-detected as card=174 and 'Robert's your uncle' I was able to
> scan all 3 multiplexes with w_scan.
> However, I am unable to get mythtv to tune into any of the channels.  This
> is on my working mythtv box where the channels have already been scanned
> (will not lock).  Nor will it scan on the new test box I set up for the T
> 500.
> Furthermore, tzap and gnutv both appear to tune into stations in a
> channels.conf file scanned by scan (not w_scan).  However, I am not sure how
> to capture the stream and send to a computer with enough grunt to play the
> stream to make sure I really am tuning properly.
> So, I would like to do is confirm that card is actually receiving a usable
> TV stream.  I think gnutv captures the stream and makes it available but I
> am not sure how to display it.  I tried outputting to a file, but it ended
> up zero length.  I tried outputting rtp to a multicast address and using vlc
> to play it.  I got nothing.  I was hoping someone who had more low level
> knowledge might be able to help here.
> But in the final analysis, I would really like to get it working with
> mythtv...
> Brendan
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