[mythtv-users] Problem recording at 720x576

[Steve Dobson]

Hi Steve

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:34:05AM +0100, Stephen Longhurst wrote:
> After some searching, I've not really been able to come up with any
> references to this problem I've got.  I don't seem to be able to watch
> or record TV through my PVR-350 when I set the profile resolution to
> 720x576.  I have a PAL setup (in the UK) and everything works fine if
> I set the various profile resolutions to 640x480 or 480x480, but I
> would like to see if I can get the higher resolution.
> 
> When I set 720x576, I get a full picture in the top left of my monitor
> window that's about 80% the size of the screen.  There's a black
> border on the right, and at the bottom of the screen there is a large
> flickering green bar.  The available picture is also quite distorted,
> although it's still recognisable.
> 
> Off the top of my head, I've got the usual PAL settings in the ivtv
> section of modules.conf (ivtv_pal=1, that sort of thing), and like I
> said everything is fine at 640x480.  I'm using ivtv 0.1.9, but was
> thing of trying out the 0.1.10-pre2 with Chris Kennedy's patches.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Strange - I'm in the UK too and I get full screen.  What are the
settings in your /etc/modules.conf file?

Also have you tried capturing some video using
  dd if=/dev/video0 of=/tmp/test.mpg bs=64k
and then playing the captured video using mplayer?

Also what source are you capturing from?  I haven't had a problem
using "test_ioctl -p 0" for my Sky DigiBox.

Steve