MythTV vs php
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Aug 27 16:24:45 UTC 2009
On Thursday 27 August 2009, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>On 08/27/2009 12:47 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 27 August 2009, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>> What are your problems getting MythTV running, and have you looked for
>>> help on the MythTV-users email list?
>>
>> One of the things is that it doesn't seem to play well with a pcHDTV-3000
>> card. tvtime worked very well with it for NTSC, but switching the
>> firmware loader to set it for NA over the air diigital, and it can't be
>> properly discovered by Mythconfig.
Which is why I wanted to try the new release w/o having to build it from the
tarballs.
>I'm surprised, as I have a pcHDTV-5500 running in my system....
>
>The card can only be used for either NTSC or ATSC, but it can be
>switched between when the other is not in use. I have used it to view
>OTA and now clearQAM cable with only a re-configuration in MythTV.
That cable is yet another modulation standard, and I wasn't aware that the
ATSC code could function with QAM rather than 8VSB. Or maybe that is one of
the diffs between my -3000 and your -5500?
>My cable has completely switch to all digital, so the NTSC side is now
>worthless for me.
As have we for all OTA reception. I have a large LP antenna, and I'm getting
the PBS station about 65 air miles away on the house tv's (22" Samsungs)
quite well unless there is a lot of precip in the path.
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