[mythtv-users] Where to set hue/saturation

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 13:12, Joe Byrne wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 7:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Where to set hue/saturation
>
> > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 09:40, Chris Wieringa wrote:
> > > >>>> tommy at home.tig-grr.com 3/10/2004 8:56:33 AM >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> The picture from my mythtvbox is over saturated. (not
> > > >> considering the colors, the picture from my mythbox is
> > > >> _better_ than the actual TV-picture). Were is the the best
> > > >> place to change this setting?
> > > >
> > > >This is a bit tricky.  It is stored in the channel table in the
> > > > database. The colour field is the saturation.  It's stored
> > > > per-channel, so you would do this to update the setting
> > > > globally:
> > > >
> > > >  $ mysql -u mythtv -p mythconverg
> > > >  (type password 'mythtv' here)
> > > >  mysql> update channel set colour=#;
> > > >
> > > >I'm not certain what the range is.  I think it is 0-65535, with
> > > > a default value of 32768.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to change this for a particular tuner instead of
> > > per channel? I have a two tuner setup - a PVR250 (picture/color
> > > is great) and a ATI TV-Wonder (bttv-based, picture is too
> > > bright/washed out). I'd like to fine tune the global picture
> > > settings for the bttv tuner, but to leave the PVR250 alone.  Can
> > > this be done somewhere?
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't think so... at least not yet.  It's been
> > asked for before...
>
> I have a similar problem.  I have both a bttv card and a PVR250.  The
> latter is oversaturated and the volume is too low across the board. 
> I've since re-installed (and thus am facing the problem again), but
> before I think I had used the PVR250 utility test_ioctl to adjust the
> saturation down.  If I had the reverse problem, I maybe would use
> Myth to adjust the bttv card and test_ioctl to compensate for the
> impact of these adjustments on the PVR250.
>
> What do people think of that approach?  I would then make note of the
> values I selected and stuff a test_ioctl command into rc.init or some
> such place.

Wouldn't Myth just reset them to what's specified in the DB when it 
changes channels on that (PVR-250) card?

-JAC