Hey guys (and gals),

I upgraded to R5A22 yesterday and the transition went flawlessly! (My compliments to the developers on that!)

But when I wanted to watch my recordings of last night I noticed that some channels are not working anymore! Most channels just work, but some commercial channels (Dutch: RTL4, NET5, MTV) just give static!

So I checked the frequencies in Mythweb, and they were unchanged. I also checked the frequency mappings in frequencies.c, but there wasn't a change there also. Also I checked if my settings were still PAL-BG, and they were. With Webmin I looked at the channel-table and the tvformat for all channels is 'Default'.

NOW I'M OUT OF OPTIONS!! My girlfriend is going to kill me for she is absolutely hooked on MythTV and those particular channels.

Please help me!

I've got a PVR-250 on PAL-BG.

Ok i've got some more info:

dmesg | grep tuner:
tveeprom: tuner = LG TP18PSB11D (idx = 48, type = 29)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = PAL(B/G) (eeprom = 0x04, v4l2 = 0x00000007)
tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
tuner: type set to 29 (LG PAL_BG (TPI8PSB11D)) by ivtv i2c driver #0

dmesg | grep ivtv:
ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 0.4.0 (tagged release) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.13.2-chw-3 SMP preempt 586 gcc-3.3
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card (iTVC16 based)
ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
tveeprom: ivtv version
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
saa7115 1-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7115, addr=21]
msp34xx: ivtv version
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP3418W-B3, addr=40]
ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 161 x 12960 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 80 x 26208 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
tuner: type set to 29 (LG PAL_BG (TPI8PSB11D)) by ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0
ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=Hauppauge IR, addr=18]

cat /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv:
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c

And lspci says the following:
0000:00:0e.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

Does anyone have an idea to fix this problem?

Hi,

I had similar problem with one channel. It was black/white. So I had to finetune that channel. Before R5A16-->R5A22 upgrade finetune value was 35 and now new value is over 2000.
Hope this help.

kas

Thanks for your reply! I tried retuning but I just can't find those particular channels!

I tried setting the tuner type to: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 28, 29, 38, 39. But they all don't work!

Is there anyone with a hint or tip for me?

Could it maybe be the Hauppauge driver? I really got no idea how to fix this (help?)

Will ivtv 0.4.0 work with the old drivers?

For me the same problem (I think). I'm also from Holland and all the channels named with E* were wrong. For some reason you need to fill in the whole frequency for good results. For more info, check this link: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/144615?nohighlight=1#144615
My cable provider is upc, I can give you my list of frequency's if you need it.

Thanks for your reply ranjo! But I'm afraid this also didn't work! It's the following frequencies: 37(-48), 51(-48), 47(+32) and some others. I've got the 'europe-west' scheme.
It worked with these frequencies with R5A16, why not with the new release?

I'm really getting desperate now..

Is there nobody who can help me? I thought it would be easier to supply all possible relevant information so you could easily see my problem. Is there any information you need to help me fix this?

Summary:
- Some channels 'gone'
- Worked in R5A16, no frequency changes
- Finetuning doesn't work
- Tuning to frequency doesn't work
- Other channels are still working
- PAL-BG
- PVR-250
- R5A22 (ivtv 0.4.0)

Hey guys, I tried something else.

I compiled the newest ivtv (0.4.1) but that also didn't work. Then the 0.2.0 ivtv, but that also didn't solve the problem.

Next step will be changing the pvr driver. I'll try that tomorrow.

Ok so, despite not many people were able to hel me with this problem, I'll describe what I did to make it work.

So I changed to a different Hauppauge firmware and back. I tried ivtv 0.2.0. I changed the settings of mythtv to all the options (even the NTSC ones, while i'm in PAL-land). I even reinstalled R5A22! But nothing worked.

So last weekend I had enough: I installed R5A16 again. AND IT WORKED!

I think I'll have to skip R5A22. I was really happy with the release. It upgraded like a charm and has all those new features but it just doesn't work for me because of the channels i'm missing.

I did notice, however, that mythtv has new options in the tv settings. Like the PAL-BG option was in R5A22 but not in R5A16.. Maybe there is some bug there.. I don't know.. I hope a new release will be there soon..

I hope this helps someone..