[mythtv-users] pic bad/channels off
Isaac Richards
ijr at po.cwru.edu
Thu Jun 5 17:38:00 EDT 2003
On Thursday 05 June 2003 03:49 pm, 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?
It is not getting detected 'just fine'. I guarantee that it's wrongly
detecting the tuner type as PAL, while you need to use NTSC. Try loading the
'tuner.o' module with 'type=2' and adding 'tuner=2' to the load line for the
bttv module.
Isaac
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