I’ve searched ad nauseam for a solution, but nothing seems to work.

I built a myth box (see below) with a PVR-500 tuner card. As seems to be typical, the first tuner works ok (a little fuzzy), but the picture on the second is indistinguishable. I have PVR-150 in an almost identical machine that runs perfectly off the same input source (with no splitter). At this point I was ready to RMA the 500 and replace it with 2 150’s.

I pulled the 150 and put into the new box along with the 500. The 150 is set up at /dev/video0 and the 500 as /dev/video1 and /dev/video2. The picture from the 150 is still perfect, however neither picture on the 500 is usable. I am using the same video source (cable) as before still without a splitter. I just switch the cable from one card to the other. I was hoping that using the exact same input source would eliminate signal strength as a variable. I get the same results with a both inputs connected at the same time using a splitter.

Is there a hardware conflict I am not aware of? Software conflict? All tuners are configured identically as per Jarod’s MythTV HOWTO.

Thanks in advance for any insight.

Mike




Athlon 3000
512 meg ram
320gig SATA
ATI Radeon 9600
Fedora Core 5
Kernel 2.6.17-1.2157
Ivtv 0.70
MythTV .19

Any luck with this. I just completed my MythTV build and I cannot get a good signal from Coax, SVideo or Component with my PVR500.

CV

No luck. I RMAed the card an replaced it with 2 PVR-150s. They have been running perfectly for almost 4 months. Good luck, if you do find a solution, please let me know.

So, your 150s come though live and recorded as clean as a direct signal to your TV? On my 500, both my coax and s-video are just fuzzy. DVD and video playback are clean though... that proves it's not the output video card's fault. I will look for some 150s to try. Thanks!