[ILUG] Anyone use MythTV in Ireland

[Keith Davey]

Ok, got its sorted.

When you install the ivtv driver you will get a utility called ptune.pl 
or ptune-ui.pl.
You can set frequencies with that.

This page may come in useful for people trying out any Linux based TV stuff:
http://www.ntl.com/locales/ie/en/athome/frequency.html

What I notice is this:
There is a tveeprom driver. When you modprobe tveeprom it reports the 
tuner chip
on the device. In this case it reports FM1245.

The closest match to this in the list of tuner types is:
type=1 - Philips PAL_I (FI1246 and compatibles)

So type equals one is the correct argument to send in /etc/modules.conf
The line looks like this:
options tuner type=1 pal=1

Nobody seems too certain is the pal=1 does anything in this case.

So once you have the tuner set correctly and pal set you can start to tune.

There is only one problem,  the frequency ranges for NTL are not within 
the PAL-I range.
But if you use ptune-ui.pl one of the menus has a list of 'a' channels, 
which I think are for when
you are connected to an antenna, you get your tv. So you could be right 
about the VHF/UHF
thing.

Once I figure everything out I can write up something explaining all the 
options for Ireland.

Keith







Philippe Duval wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 12:42, Nick Murtagh wrote:
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>>Hmm. Could it be the tuner is VHF only? NTL transmits on UHF AFAIK.
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>Well in this case it's not NTL's transmission that is  fed into the
>card, but the output from the STB (should have precised that I was using
>NTL digital service). 
>However whether it's UHF or VHf I don't know.
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>Phil
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