[mythtv-users] Global colour saturation

Ian Forde ian at duckland.org
Thu Oct 16 23:54:29 EDT 2003


On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 22:22, Ian Forde wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 21:58, Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. wrote:
> > >>>>> Ian Forde writes:
> > 
> > >> BTW, if you are using bttv cards, espcially WinTV cards, the
> > >> whole color range is distorted. If you are running a kernel
> > >> and bttv driver with V4L2 support, there is a pretty good
> > >> fix.
> > 
> > i> Uhh... I'm using a WinTV card (WinTV-FM - the 401 card, I believe) and
> > i> doing a 'v4lctl list' doesn't give me the 'chroma agc', combfilter,
> > i> automute, 'luma decim', or 'agc crush' options...
> > 
> >         Are you sure you have a kernel with the V4L2 patches and the
> > bttv 0.9.x drivers?
> 
> I'm using Axel's 2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at kernel.  I was under the belief
> that this kernel has the v4l2 patches already applied.  I just realized
> though that I hadn't updated my bttv driver.  I'm now downloading it
> from bytesex.org/bttv and I'll see what happens...

Okay - I got it.  Couldn't get the sources to build, but then found Axel
has an RPM for that too.  (Gotta love it!)  So now I've got the option
and and I have to admit - it's better!  (Combined with the database
entry changes)

Thanks!

	-I
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                       Ian Forde, RHCE, CCSE, SCNA, SCDME
                       CYTBeN, Inc.
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