[gentoo-user] Re: Mythtv ATSC WinTV 1600

[Neal Hogan]

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Neal Hogan<nealhogan@×××××.com> wrote:
> I hope you receive the stuff below with a grain of appreciation. I've
> asked for help on the mythtv forum, but have yet to get it.
>
>
> I recently acquired a new Hauppauge WinTV 1600 and have successfully
> gotten the analog side working with the analog channels (1-99). That
> is, I can plug my (Comcast) cable from the wall to the tuner card's
> analog input and get the basic cable channels.
>
> However, the whole reason for getting tv tuner card and mythtv was to
> record japanTV, which is beyond channel 99 and requires a set top box
> to watch it on the TV. I've read the installation instructions for the
> ATSC input of the card but I'm having problems and am aware of the IR
> blaster option.
>
> I suppose the main problem . . . the one causing the other problems
> like not getting any channels is that mythtv is not "seeing" my card.
> When I go to configure the capture card there is not DVB DTV card type
> offered, which suggests to me that card is not being "seen."
>
> Suggestions?
>

First, I want to apologize for the double post the other day. I, for
some reason, had forgotten that I'd already posted the day before.

Anyway, my situation is much better. I am able to capture japanTV. The
thing is that I'm not sure how. Here is what I did.

1) Connected the tuner card's analog side to the cable box/set-top-box.

2) Set the cable box to japanTV (in this case, channel 674)

3) Attempted to gather channels at mythtv-setup, which it did . . . a
handful (16,17,18,19, etc).

4) Just to see what channels it claimed to have found, I started
recording 1 minute bits of each.

5) To my surprise, tuner card channels 17,18, and 19 captured japanTV
with varying degrees of quality (18 being the best).

So, for now I feel better because I can put this project down for a
while. I guess part of my confusion comes from the fact that I didn't
set the tuner channel like I would the TV (channel 3). Although,
japanTV seems to be the only thing getting though.