[mythtv-users] Problems viewing TV using an ATI TV-Wonder and AsusA7N266-VM

[Michael Greb]

Steven Sartorius said:
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> MythTV built and installed with no problems and I am able to watch
> .avi/.mpg
> files full screen with sound using mplayer.  The problems arise when I try
> to watch TV.  Before I tackled MythTV I tried to get xawtv going, just to
> make sure my card was capturing cable correctly.   Starting up xawtv
> resulted in an immediate segfault (even after I installed the correct
> fonts!).  I was only able to get xawtv to run by manually specifying the
> /dev/video0 device on the command line.  Initially, I was only able to get
> a
> blue screen -- this was with the bttv module autoprobe defaults (card=63
> and
> tuner=19).  Searching the archives I saw people recommending the tuner be
> defined as 2 so I tried that with (almost) the same result -- this time I
> got 2 channels (5 and 6) both in washed out color.  At this point I popped
> open my case and took a look at the sticker on my tuner -- it was
> identified
> as a '4036 FY5 TEMIC 3X1 981'.  According to the CARDLIST file in the bttv
> documentation this was a type 8 tuner (Temic NTSC).  So I tried that and
> got
> the same dismal results as before.  Getting desperate now, I went down the
> list of tuner types (still keeping the card at 63).  All the NTSC type
> tuners I tried resulted in blue screens or a handful of (washed out)
> channels.  I had better luck with some of the PAL tuners -- on several of
> them I was able to view TV, in color, but fuzzy and distorted and with the
> channels off by one.  At this point I'm thinking I've got a bad card or
> maybe there's a problem with my mobo/kernel combination.  Anybody have any
> insight......???

Have you tried telling XawTV to use NTSC as opposed to PAL?  I believe it
has a setting for this and I had similiar results until switching this.
Michael