[mythtv-users] pic bad/channels off

mOjO mOjOspam at thegeekclub.net
Fri Jun 6 00:33:05 EDT 2003


thanks Jeff!

i looked at the cards in the CARDLIST then set card=63 (ATI TV wonder) 
and tuner=2 in /etc/modules.conf, rebooted and the channels were good 
and the color was back... still all is not entirely well.. it seems i 
cant find a harmonious balance between decent picture and not maxxing 
out my cpu thus making the audio get choppy... and then sometimes it 
just freezes... i think i screwed up so much crap in this system first 
trying to get it to compile and then trying to get it to run right that 
it may be best for me to clean install and do it right the first time on 
the next install now that i know how...
 i would think an Athlon XP 1700 would be adequate to handle myth... 
maybe SuSe 8.2 is just too bloated or i've FUBAR'd it good... im gonna 
mess with it a little more then maybe try Gentoo, if all else fails its 
going back to WinXP [insert sinister music here] because the main 
purpose of that box is to watch DivX movies and play mp3s in my living 
room, i just thought it would also make a nice capping machine.

mOjO

Jeff Waters wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 16:41, Ben Bucksch wrote:
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>>mOjO wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>IIRC, those symptoms point to the wrong frequency table. Pick the right 
>>one in the setup app (the standalone one).
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>>>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...
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>>"Canada-cable" is a frequency table. It has nothing to do with the model 
>>of your TV card.
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>I've had the exact same problem since I started this and finally
>corrected it today. Run lsmod (in root) you should see bttv listed.
>If it is do a rmmod bttv and then a insmod bttv card=xx tuner=xx and use
>the card list in the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv (or
>similar location, personally I did a locate bttv to find it) location to
>find the card and tuner settings for your card. I had to shut down my
>box pull the tv card and write down the numbers off it to find what the
>tuner in it was. That will get all your channels back working/listing as
>they should be. Also make sure your using the correct ntsc/pal settings.
>After you've found the correct settings and have tested them with insmod
>add them to your /etc/modules.conf file to make it permanent.
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>Hope this helps.
>
>- Jeff "Muddy" Waters
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>ps. If you need file references email me I'll send what it should look
>like to you.
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