[mythtv-users] How do you compile with support for TV Out on PVR 350?

Ward Vandewege ward at pong.be
Sat Nov 1 11:06:50 EST 2003


Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Saturday 01 November 2003 06:41 am, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> It's taken over the text consoles.  Only way to stop it from doing this, that 
> I'm aware of, is to make sure another framebuffer driver (for, say, an actual 
> video card) gets loaded first.

Ah! I'm going to try that right away.

> That's exactly what the size and x/y offsets in mythtv are there for, to allow 
> you to compensate for what's actually visible on your TV.  It's not difficult 
> to set this up first, if you've ever configured mythtv before.

True. I'll go that route, fair enough.

>>Also, once I have gone to 'Watch TV', the bottom 20% of the screen
>>becomes a duplicate of the top 20%, making Myth even less useable...
> 
> 
> Sounds like something's not in PAL mode for you; perhaps the capture 
> resolution's not at x576 (not sure if it scales odd-height captures to 
> full-size), or you're not using Jens Axboe's latest source tree, or you 
> didn't load the ivtv driver with the ivtv_pal=1 parameter, or there's still 
> something in the driver hardcoded to NTSC, etc, etc, etc.

This is with Jens' latest source tree, capture resolution at x576, 
loading ivtv driver with ivtv_pal=1. I'll double-check everything first 
and come back to you.

> Never seen that happen on NTSC, of course.

I didn't think so :)

Bye for now,
Ward.



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