[pvrusb2] no video...

[Carsten Meier]

Am Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:53:03 -0500
schrieb Dhimiter Bozo <dhimiter at gmail.com>:

> hi Mike,i've connected the coaxial out from the cable box to the back
> of the tv and that works. when i connect the cable box coaxial cable
> to the capture card that does not work. i've even bypassed using
> mplayer and tried it straight with VLC but no luck. i'm not really
> sure what you mean when you say: "Seems like you are just not
> operating it correctly with the cable box or that your cable box is
> doing something you don't expect."i have cablevision and the box is
> from scientific atlanta explorer 4250HD. in the back it has hdmi out,
> component out, and coaxial in and out. I've connected the tv to both,
> hdmi and coaxial out and both outputs work. when i plug coaxial out
> in the capture card i get just snow flakes, no sound even. could it
> be that the capture card is not compatible with this cable box? or
> maybe there is something about the output format from the cable box
> that tripping the capture card. i'm not very familiar with this
> hardware so it's hard to debug it.

Maybe it is some sort of copy-protection? Possibly it works via
composite. But this is just a guess of me.

Regards,
Carsten