Thread: Serious issues finishing my install with HVR-950Q and NTSC Support

I am totally new to this thread, so would really like a response before I put too much effort in this as I am soooo exhausted, and believe me when I say ANY help would be very much appreciated.

I seemingly have successfuly installed the driver for the Haauppauge hvr-950q, theMySQL database, the MythTV Backend and Frontend also seem to be installed with most errors fixed.

But still I have had no success getting a TV picture through my HVR-950Q and my Analog NTSC Canadian cable (its the only source I have), and any software especially MythTV, though it totally sees the card! Any troubleshooting tips would be much appreciated!

OK 2 view already, some optimism. To be a bit more informative from my side I would also like to as some specific installation questions.

1/ I can't get a successful scan for channels with MythTV or presumably also can't do something called initially populate my channel file,
2/ I chose for Default Input: television, though there were 2 other choices /s-video/composite ?? I chose TV, Is that right???
3/ VBI Device is blank; Should I fill it with anything (nothing to select), and what is it?
4/ When I select "Watch TV" it says please wait in a black screen, then after 5-10 seconds it goes back to the menu, hmmmmm??? What should I try next????
5/ there is only one error when I run the backend: "Card 1 (type Television) is set to start on channel Please add, which does not exist.", it seems elf explanatory but I don't know how to solve it.

Thanks again at least for viewing. going bugeyed, Mark

OK so now after rebooting I have a few problems:
1/ mythbackend won't remain started, though in system services runlevel it is enabled,
- as you can see below with the "mythbackend" command I have a few errors, and with the "/etc/init.d/mythbackend start" command it starts and stops within 2-3 seconds i.e. won't remain on???? Any ideas?
2/ and after a reboot a lot of the changes I made were lost ex/ my storage assignments, and others that don't come to mind right now.
3/ a unrelated question is,...What choose for VBI input, intuitively I choose "NTSC Closed Caption", PAL is not right but maybe I should choose "none"

Can someone at least point me in the right direction?


linux-26yx:~ # mythbackend
2010-03-15 19:04:02.719 mythbackend version: branches/release-0-22-fixes [Unknown] www.mythtv.org
2010-03-15 19:04:02.719 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2010-03-15 19:04:02.719 Using configuration directory = /root/.mythtv
2010-03-15 19:04:02.719 Empty LocalHostName.
2010-03-15 19:04:02.719 Using localhost value of linux-26yx
2010-03-15 19:04:02.727 New DB connection, total: 1
2010-03-15 19:04:02.730 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2010-03-15 19:04:02.730 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2010-03-15 19:04:02.731 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2010-03-15 19:04:02.734 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1244
2010-03-15 19:04:02.736 MythBackend: Starting up as the master server.
2010-03-15 19:04:02.738 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server
2010-03-15 19:04:02.739 New DB connection, total: 2
2010-03-15 19:04:02.740 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2010-03-15 19:04:02.743 TVRec(10) Error: Problem finding starting channel, setting to default of '3'.
2010-03-15 19:04:02.784 ChannelBase(10) Error: InitializeInputs():
Could not get inputs for the capturecard.
Perhaps you have forgotten to bind video
sources to your card's inputs?
2010-03-15 19:04:02.786 mythbackend: Problem with capture cards: Card 10failed init
2010-03-15 19:04:02.787 TVRec(13) Error: Problem finding starting channel, setting to default of '3'.
2010-03-15 19:04:02.829 ChannelBase(13) Error: InitializeInputs():
Could not get inputs for the capturecard.
Perhaps you have forgotten to bind video
sources to your card's inputs?
2010-03-15 19:04:02.830 mythbackend: Problem with capture cards: Card 13failed init
2010-03-15 19:04:02.831 New DB scheduler connection
2010-03-15 19:04:02.833 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2010-03-15 19:04:02.834 Scheduler, Warning: Listings source 'SchedDirect.org' is defined, but is not attached to a card input.
2010-03-15 19:04:02.834 Scheduler, Warning: Listings source '' is defined, but is not attached to a card input.
2010-03-15 19:04:02.834 Scheduler, Error: No channel sources defined in the database
linux-26yx:~ # /etc/init.d/mythbackend start
Starting MythTV backend done
linux-26yx:~ # /etc/init.d/mythbackend start
Starting MythTV backend done