From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 5 03:45:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D1E16A402 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 03:45:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0B813C442 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 03:45:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4EE133D24; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:15:04 +1030 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BA4B21A9CBF; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:15:04 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:15:04 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Joe Auty Message-ID: <20070305034504.GD74804@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20070228020908.GB2159@wantadilla.lemis.com> <5929B349-AE63-4896-B1ED-9A263997A2C7@netmusician.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Bu8it7iiRSEf40bY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5929B349-AE63-4896-B1ED-9A263997A2C7@netmusician.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with PVR 250 and MythTV X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:45:06 -0000 --Bu8it7iiRSEf40bY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 27 February 2007 at 21:59:16 -0500, Joe Auty wrote: > On Feb 27, 2007, at 9:09 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> * Before you can use the card, you need to tune to a signal. >> Currently the program pvr250-setchannel does that; effectively the >> same program exists in 7-CURRENT as setchannel, and I'll MFC it when >> I'm happy with the rest. >> >> Tune like this: >> >> $ setchannel -m channel-no >> >> If you're in the USA using terrestial TV, is 1. Cable >> is 2. If you're using a satellite connection, you'll need some kind >> of converter. >> >> I'm not sure about the status of the man page for setchannel, but if >> you run it without arguments you should get a help message. > > Getting some TV now, and Myth is working! Yeeaaahhh!!! > > I don't have a "setchannel" tool, but I have a pvr250-setchannel > which seems identical in design. Yes, as I said, it's the same program. I renamed it because the old name is too much work to type. > Just FYI, all my PC is doing is receiving a signal from my satellite > box via a connection split between my TV and PC from my satellite > receiver - a very crude setup jerry-rigged with a little $20 > splitter doohickey you can buy from just about anywhere. It cannot > change channels and does not manipulate the signal at all - it is > basically a "line in" for the raw signal sent from my satellite > receiver - the same signal my TV receives. OK, that makes sense, though it's not ideal for quality. But for that we'll need DVB-S card support, or whatever the US equivalent is. > I just got everything working by typing: > > pvr250-setchannel -m 1 4 > > I was entering both the wrong channel before and using the -t flag. I > guess it is understandable that I don't want to try to actually > change the channel by invoking the tuner, just want to set the card > to listen in on the right channel, or something like that. This is quite interesting, in fact. Using usleepless' driver, I found that I often needed to use -t, and that it wouldn't work without it. My guess is that -t switches inputs, and that it's only needed if the current input is something else. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --Bu8it7iiRSEf40bY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF65JAIubykFB6QiMRAoSDAJ9mfMy5ZSQEeUSVqXgJWQ7RQFSX2gCfXnQW 7A5eh9AbOyOY+N5uPSRWZ1w= =rSNO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Bu8it7iiRSEf40bY--