[mythtv] Beginner's questions...

James Fidell james at cloud9.co.uk
Sun Feb 2 12:54:49 EST 2003


Ok, more follow-ups to my own email...

> When I start mythfrontend and choose the "watch tv" option, the picture
> is very dark, grainy and jittery.  Xawtv is fine though.  I guess this
> may be that I haven't answered the above questions from mythdatabasefill
> correctly and the channel tuning isn't working.  If I do have the channel
> tuning correct though, it looks like mythtv isn't selecting the channels
> correctly.  For example, if I go into the EPG and pick a channel, I get
> "snow" rather than a picture.

Looks like this was due to having the wrong setting for frequency table
in settings.txt.  Get that right, and I get proper pictures and sound.

James


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