I installed MythTV, but when I try to "watch TV" I get white fuzz on every channel with no picture whatsoever (like a TV hooked to no cable source or antenna). I have a Dell Pentium 4 running a 2.8Ghz processor with 512MB RAM, an Intel 82865G graphics controller and a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 card connected to my coax cable feed. I did the R5D1 install of MythTV and have done the following under setup:

-General: left all as default including IP at 127.0.0.1
-Capture Cards: created a new capture card MPEG:/dev/video0
-Video Source: created a new video source, including a data direct account, and successfully downloaded channel lineup information (this information successfully appears on the screen when I try to watch MythTV and get the static)
-Input Connections: associated Tuner 1 with the video source above

I pretty much left everything else on the default settings. The backend is started, and everything else seems to be working. Sound seems to work fine. I'm not running any other applications on the machine. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Rob

See this page on the wiki which is all about issues like this - http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=BlackScreenWatchingTV


That should be "MPEG2 Encoder" not just MPEG. Double check this.


If you've got the right card type selected, it's probably either the tuner chips type (see the CheckingLogFiles wiki page), or the wrong frequency set for you cable provider (see the BlackScreenWatchingTV wiki page).

Also, there's a known problem with D1 where the chiptype isn't being set right.

I can't find the thread, unfortunately. You have to edit one of the files and set the tuner type to 50, IIRC.

I found it before when I found the error message in the log files. Something about not being able to find the tuner type.

That issue is already cover on the wiki troubleshooting pages I pointed him to. It's not so much that it's not being set right but that it's being marked as "unknown".

Thanks for the replies. I am a huge newbee to the Linux world, but pretty experienced with computers. Can you point me to a document that can get me to the log files I need to examine. (Remembering that my total knowledge of Linux consists of installing this from the boot CD and then using xterm a couple of times to get to a prompt...and then pretty much nothing else.)

Rob

I already provided this info in my first response above.

Click on the link in the quoted section above to go to the BlackScreenWatchingTV page on the KnoppMyth wiki. Look for the links on that page with the names in bold above. Click on those links.

The BlackScreenWatchingTV page is a central clearing house for tuner problems, and as such has links to many other pages of diagnostic and remedial procedures. I don't know how I could have ben much clearer without posting the whole page.