[mythtvnz] Asus Mycinema won't tune in Mythtv

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:49:44 +1300, you wrote:

>On 21 January 2011 17:49, Joel Wiramu Pauling <joel at aenertia.net> wrote:
>
>> My original post still stands use VLC to interface with card directly
>> (in command line mode) - and push it over the network or file then
>> check it if you can't decode it on the box.
>>
>> 2* 1080p streams is more than enough to cram up the IO subsystem
>> switching between pci bus, disc io and network on older hardware.
>>
>> Go look up the duron and chipset arch and do some sums.
>>
>> It's the same reason you can't run good performance out of older
>> ARM/MIPs based NAS devices (cheap ones on the market) they simply
>> can't sustain r/w io from the discs or the network from the cpu bus.
>>
>
>So lucky I was only trying to tune into trackside...  :-)
>
>I looked at the vlc documentation and I couldn't find a command line option
>to specify input from a dvb card, so unless you know something I don't, I
>will put that option on indefinite hold.
>
>In the end, I got vlc to connect to gnutv via rtp and got sufficient
>intelligible pictures and sound to convince me I really was tuned to
>trackside.
>
>So now, I want to figure out why I can't get mythtv to tune the card...
>
>Brendan

Which Asus MyCinema is it?  There seem to be at least 4 different
ones:

  http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices