[mythtv-users] pic bad/channels off

[Ray Olszewski]

At 02:49 PM 6/5/2003 -0500, mOjO wrote:
>MythTV is off by one channel.  Like if I'm watching Channel 9 then the OSD 
>and program info says its channel 10.  Also the picture is bad and many 
>channels are in black and white.  I have the same problem in xawtv but can 
>correct it with the left/right arrow keys which brings the color back into 
>the picture  (Kinda like fine-tuning i guess.)  I read the section of the 
>How-To about "Canada-Cable" but my tuner card is being detected just fine 
>as an ATI TV Wonder which is exactly what it is... I am running SuSe 8.2 
>with an ATI TV Wonder on an Athlon XP 1700 w/ 512MB ram on a Shuttle SS40G 
>system.  That section of the How-To just tells me to join another mailing 
>list??? Do I really have to join another mailing list and ask 
>them?  ugh... this is turning into quite the headache... any help for the 
>desparate?

Not without details.

1. What card type does bttv report? Are you accepting that setting or 
overriding it in /etc/modules.conf (or anyplace else)?

2. What tuner type does bttv report? Are you accepting that setting or 
overriding it in /etc/modules.conf (or anyplace else)?

3. What frequencies are you using?  (*Reading* about "Canada-Cable" is 
useful, but more useful is *doing* what the material you read said to do, 
and I cannot tell from what you wrote if you tried other frequency choices 
or not.)

4. Are they the frequencies your provider says it is using? (If they don't 
say, at leaast next time mention what provider and where you are located.)

The problem you describe is usually caused by getting either item 2 or item 
3 wrong.