[mythtv-users] Sound but no Picture?
Mike Wood
mike at woodsnest.com
Wed Mar 12 11:47:12 UTC 2003
Malcolm,
Yes, I can watch TV in xawtv...atleast it worked the last time I tried
it. I think Isaac nailed my problem. I'm using a very old sound card I
had lying around. It's supported by ALSA so I was hoping it would work,
but I'm guessing its not up to snuff.
Thanks, Mike
Malcolm Wotton wrote:
>Yep I get this too :(
>
>However my problem is more basic, I can't get any TV at all (even with
>xawtv). When I scantv no channels are recognised at all.
>
>I have mandrake 9.0
>bttv 0.7.96
>xawtv 3.76
>TV card is an old WinTV PCI card from Hauppage - could this be the problem?
>
>I'd appreciate any help with this, the most obvious thing to do first is
>upgrade to bttv 0.7.105, but I'm not sure that this is the problem, the card
>is quite old and the kernel is new so it should be fine.
>
>Mike - I mention all this as it might be related to your problem (same error
>message in myth) Can you watch TV with xawtv?
>
>Malcolm
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
>>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of mike wood
>>Sent: 12 March 2003 04:32
>>To: Discussion about mythtv
>>Subject: [mythtv-users] Sound but no Picture?
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>>Hey Gang,
>>
>>I just got MythTV up and running, well almost. When go to watch live
>>TV, the sound starts, but the picture never shows up. In fact, the
>>picture never leaves the TV Menu. In the console, I see the following:
>>
>>Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>>strange error flushing buffer ...
>>
>>Anyone seen this? I'm running RH8. My capture card is the ATI TV
>>Wonder VE. My video is Nvidia GF4. I just installed the latest Nvidia
>>drivers (kernal & GLX).
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Mike
>>
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