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PostPosted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:37 pm 
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I think I may (may) have fixed my earlier issues here, but now I have a different problem.

With Myth, I get no picture (or sound) from my pcHDTV HD5500 set up to use NTSC cable. I installed TvTime, and with no other configuring it worked right out of the box (with the audio cabled to the line-in on the sound card). I close it, go back to myth, I still get nothing. The screen just sits black for a few seconds, then returns to the menu screen.

So... what did I screw up? Since I know the hardware works, I must have gotten the driver issue at least partially worked out. But Myth still hangs.

I set up the card as a pcHDTV v4l for television, and associated it with my Video Source (using zap2it). The listing show up fine, but I got nothin in the way of video/sound from the tuner.

Help? Please?

Hardware is a Dell 4600C P4 1.6GHz, 512MB, onboard AC97 audio, Geforce FX 5500, HD5500 tuner. Think that about covers it.

Thanks in advance.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:40 pm 
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Also, interesting tid-bit that may shed light on this for someone --

I have the option set to start with the tvguide when selecting "watch tv". With the cable plugged into the card, I get just a black screen, then back to the starting menu (no tv guide info ever shows up).

If I unplug the cable from the card, then select "watch tv", the tv guide comes up fine. I have a black square in the upper right with no video, but the guide itself shows up. If I start over and plug the cable back in, I get the complete blank screen with no guide again.

Any idea what the deal is? Keep in mind, with the cable pluged in, tvtime works.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:46 am 
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rclose wrote:
The screen just sits black for a few seconds, then returns to the menu screen.


Look in the log files for MythTV. First, the backend:
Code:
cat /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log


If there are no obvious warnings or errors in there, then try the frontend:
Code:
cat ~mythtv/.xsession-errors

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:38 pm 
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alright - finally got back to this project - work gets in the way of everything these days...

Here is my mythbackend.log:
Code:
2006-09-07 15:12:45.995 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2006-09-07 15:12:46.070 New DB connection, total: 1
2006-09-07 15:12:46.076 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-09-07 15:12:46.092 Current Schema Version: 1123
Starting up as the master server.
2006-09-07 15:12:47.411 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-09-07 15:12:47.494 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-09-07 15:12:47.530 New DB connection, total: 3
2006-09-07 15:12:47.547 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-09-07 15:12:47.596 New DB scheduler connection
2006-09-07 15:12:47.600 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-09-07 15:12:47.680 mythbackend version: 0.19.20060121-2 www.mythtv.org
2006-09-07 15:12:47.685 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2006-09-07 15:12:47.688 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 138 MiB/min
2006-09-07 15:12:47.691 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 10 min
2006-09-07 15:12:49.684 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2006-09-07 15:12:49.912 Scheduled 0 items in 0.2 = 0.22 match + 0.01 place
2006-09-07 15:12:49.924 Seem to be woken up by USER
2006-09-07 15:12:51.019 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-09-07 15:12:51.022 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-09-07 15:12:51.054 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-09-07 15:12:51.070 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 1)
2006-09-07 15:12:51.064 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-09-07 15:12:51.074 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-09-07 15:12:51.083 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-09-07 15:12:51.363 Finished recording Dr. Phil: channel 1002
2006-09-07 15:12:51.387 recording already exists...
2006-09-07 15:12:51.424 Finished recording Dr. Phil: channel 1002
2006-09-07 15:12:51.628 HD5 Error: could not obtain sync
0: start_time: 5859.060 duration: -9223372036854.775
stream: start_time: 65100.668 duration: -9223372036854.775 bitrate=0 kb/s
2006-09-07 15:12:57.805 AFD: Opened codec 0x81ab950, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2006-09-07 15:12:57.808 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)
2006-09-07 15:12:57.810 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(0,-1,-1)
2006-09-07 15:12:58.429 TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2006-09-07 15:12:58.685 DTV ringbuffer not cleaned up!

2006-09-07 15:12:58.942 DTV ringbuffer not cleaned up!

2006-09-07 15:12:58.949 Finished recording Dr. Phil: channel 1002
2006-09-07 15:12:59.216 DTV ringbuffer not cleaned up!


I see some sync problems there, and the issue with trying to view Dr. Phil (hehe) on channel 1002 (I have no idea where that came from) and the ever persistant Audio problem.

For good measure, I checked out the front end log but it was pretty much empty. I don't know what that means either.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

-r
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:50 pm 
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More info:

lspci is showing this, which I have to believe is wrong:
Code:
0000:02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Winfast TV2000 XP (rev 05)
0000:02:00.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8801 (rev 05)
0000:02:00.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8802 (rev 05)
0000:02:00.4 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8804 (rev 05)


I have installed the drivers for R5C7 as described here, so I believe I have the correct drivers installed and working. Again, I can get tvtime to display no problem (though this is a fresh install without tvtime that I did just a couple hours ago in case I screwed anything up before - in the same boat however).

How do I fix this?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:05 pm 
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bump.

I'll also add that the video source I am trying to get to work is analog NTSC through Knology (USA). Maybe there is something easy I am just blatantly doing wrong with respect to analog cable. It seems most people here are using some digital signal.

Thanks for any insight.
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