[mythtvnz] HVR-2200 Not finding channels...

[rob at webworxshop.com]

Hi All,

Thanks for the reponses last night, I have made some progress. I found 
that I was still missing firmware for one of the chips on the HVR-2200 
when I tried the 'scan' utility. Adding that firmware allows me to pick 
up some channels, although what channels are picked up seems to vary 
from scan to scan! I am able to pick up the TVNZ channels reliably.

My next problem is that when trying to watch TV I get less than a 
second of video before the picture freezes. After about a minute the 
frontend then falls back to the menu with the message "Video frame 
buffering failed too many times". There doesn't appear to be anything in 
the logs, but the stdout of mythfrontend shows that it is waiting for 
files which aren't there, e.g. /mnt/recordings/livetv/1001_<some 
timestamp>.mpg - there are several of these entries.

Looking in /mnt/recordings/livetv:

[robert at laforge ~]$ ls -la /mnt/recordings/livetv/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 mythtv root  4096 Oct 19 20:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 mythtv root  4096 Oct 19 19:51 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv users    0 Oct 19 18:36 1010_20111019183639.mpg

Shows only one file!

Anyone got any idea why the other files are not getting written?

Cheers,

Rob

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:37:16 +1300, Mike Brady wrote:
> Quoting rob at webworxshop.com:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm having trouble finding channels with my new HVR-2200. I've 
>> followed
>> the instructions/experiences of members of this list in earlier 
>> threads
>> to get the module with the correct firmware. I now have the
>> /dev/dvb/adapter[1 & 2] directories populated (adapter 0 is my DVB-S
>> card).
>>
>> In mythtv-setup I've selected 'DVB Capture Card' with device
>> /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0, which gives me the frontend ID of: NXP
>> TDA10048HN DVB-T. I added the other tuner in the same manner. In 
>> video
>> sources I added a new source and set the listings grabber to be EIT. 
>> I
>> also set the channel frequency table as newzealand. In input 
>> connections
>> I've associated adapter1 with my new video source and tried to scan.
>>
>> In the scan setting window I select the correct input, desired 
>> services
>> as TV, scan type Full TV and country as New Zealand. Scanning then
>> proceeds but each channel times out without finding anything even 
>> though
>> I'm getting up to 99% signal strenth on some channels.
>>
>> I'm sure I must be doing something wrong here as the same antenna
>> output works with the Freeview tuner in my TV.
>>
>> Any help appreciated,
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rob
>>
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> The frequencies to use depend on where you are.  I had to use the
> nz-AucklandInfill ones from here
> http://linuxtv.org/hg/dvb-apps/file/887beb83943a/util/scan/dvb-t to
> get mine to work.
>
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