[mythtv-users] current CVS - using Composite input

[Michael J. Sherman]

Hi all.

I've had some bad luck with Myth recently.  Yesterday I was attempting 
to improve picture quality for LiveTV, so I adjusted some of the 
quality settings in the MPEG4 controls in the setup screens.  That 
seemed to work well.  But then I decided to try to adjust contrast and 
brightness.  Boy was that a mistake!  I hit 'k' to decrease 
brightness, and it all of the sudden dropped to 0% and I could barely 
see anything on the screen.  Hitting 'K' failed to increase 
brightness.  The same thing happened with the contrast keys, so by the 
time I was done trying to "improve" things, it was a completely black 
screen with no way to get it back!  And since I use Composite input, I 
couldn't find any contrast/brightness settings for it anywhere in the 
DB.  I found that each channel has an entry, but where is the 
composite in setting found?  I had to wipe my DB and reinstall from 
scratch to get it back to normal.

And that's where I'm having an issues now.  I set Composite1 as the 
default input, and when I go to "Watch TV" it works fine.  But when a 
recording is scheduled to record, it starts recording off of the 
Television input!  That's not hooked up, so I get the green 
screen/static.  Then when I go back to "Watch TV" after a recording 
has tried to start (and I stop it), the input is set to Television, so 
I have to hit "C" to get it back to Composite1.  So even though I have 
Composite1 chosen as the default input, why does the recording now 
insist on trying to record off of the Television input?   Where can I 
set that?  I have never seen this problem before.  I just grabbed the 
latest CVS last night and am having this issue.

Any tips would be fantastic, as I can't record anything right now, and 
my Myth box is kinda pointless without that feature ;).  And yes, it 
used to work perfectly until last night, and I did a 'make distclean' 
before compiling and completely removed and reinstalled the 
mythconverg database.

Thanks!
-Mike

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Michael J. Sherman  |  Software Developer  |  Digital Sandbox, Inc.
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