hardware issues with Kworld 115 and Pinnacle 800i
Hello,
I have a Kworld 115 that works just fine on my mythdora 5 box. Both the analog and the QAM work great. I know the analog does not have a hardware encoder, but the capture is nice and clean and I have PLENTY of processor to do the job. If I put the same card in my mythdora 10.21 box the analog side doesn't tune at all. This also happened on my mythdora 5 box when I upgraded the v4l packages so I know that was the issue.
I have a Pinnacle 800i in my mythdora 10.21 box. The DVB side brings in good audio/video, but no captioning (VERY important as we have a hearing impaired viewer in house); and the analog side is very poor. I've verified that good signal is coming to the box and running same cable straight to TV is great.
My goal is to have a good DVB/NTSC tuner card to tune both analog cable tv and unencrypted QAM tv. The Kworld does EXACTLY what I need on the mythdora 5 box. My options are:
1. Get another Kworld 115 for the 10.21 box if I can get the analog side working
2. Fix the issues on the Pinnacle 800i (poor quality analog and no caption on QAM)
3. Buy another card for my 10.21 box that does QAM and analog cable well and does captions on both.
Any advice is appreciated.
FYI the only reason I haven't upgraded my mythdora 5 box to 10.21 is because of the kworld issue on 10.21

Have you done what the Wiki
Have you done what the Wiki states?
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Closed_captioning
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Pinnacle_PCTV_HD_Card_(800i)#Digital
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
yep
Sorry for the delay I didn't get the notification that I got a response.
Closed captioning is enabled on the both backends and works great on 3 out of 4 virtual tuers, it just doesn't work on the qam/digital side of the pinnacle
I did go through the setup steps in the wiki for the pinical 800i. I followed them completely in mythdora 5 and when I upgraded to 10.21 it had the newer stuff built in and it worked (to the same level of quality) as it did in mythdora 5 after updating v4l
Did you ever get the analog
Did you ever get the analog input working with your Kworld 115 under Mythdora 10.21? I have a kworld 110, and the analog input worked directly without any additional effort in Mythdora 4 and Mythdora 5, but with Mythdora 10.21, I just get static.
kworld 110/115 no analog
Did you ever get the analog input working with your Kworld 115 under Mythdora 10.21? I have a kworld 110, and the analog input worked directly without any additional effort in Mythdora 4 and Mythdora 5, but with Mythdora 10.21, I just get static.
I also have this problem. Do you see these lines if you run dmesg in your terminal?
saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
nxt200x: NXT2004 Detected
tuner-simple 2-0061: creating new instance
tuner-simple 2-0061: type set to 68 (Philips TUV1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in)
DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0])
DVB: registering frontend 0 (Nextwave NXT200X VSB/QAM frontend)...
nxt2004: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-nxt2004.fw)...
firmware: requesting dvb-fe-nxt2004.fw
nxt2004: Waiting for firmware upload(2)...
nxt2004: Firmware upload complete
nxt200x: Timeout waiting for nxt2004 to init.
I have this Timeout line. I think that the new v4l2 driver is the issue. I tried without any success to compile an older one.