[mythtv-users] Problem watching tv

[The Cyberwizzard]

After doing a lot of reading and trying stuff I concluded that it might have 
something to do with my TV card itself. I got a WinFast TV 2000 XP Expert 
which has the brand new cx23881 chip on it. Hence the bttv drivers won't 
work and I'm stuck with the cx8800 drivers which aren't nearly finished 
yet...

However I find it odd that allthough the driver lacks overlay support (not 
implemented yet) nor IR support, the main output is capture mode. Thats how 
TVTime and xawtv get their image feed...
Does MythTV need the overlay feature to watch tv?? And if so - why? It seems 
to me that if the backend encodes the stream and sends it to the frontend 
then capture mode should work, right?

Does anyone else have a cx8800 based tv card and is it working??

Berend Dekens

>From: "The Cyberwizzard" <a_wizzard at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>Subject: [mythtv-users] Problem watching tv
>Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 20:08:47 +0000
>
>Hi,
>
>I got my tuner to work without problems in xawtv (bit of jerky display but 
>thats because I don't have overlay for some reason) but I can't get it to 
>work in MythTV. I tried setting the resolution for watching tv to the 
>standard PAL format but it doesn't work. In fact - should it matter at all? 
>I mean the backend does the capturing so who cares what the frontend is 
>doing, right?
>
>Anyhow I get these messages:
>VIDIOCMCAPTURE0: Invalid argument
>VIDIOCMCAPTURE1: Invalid argument
>VIDIOCMCAPTURE0: Invalid argument
>VIDIOCMCAPTURE1: Invalid argument
>VIDIOCMCAPTURE0: Invalid argument
>VIDIOCMCAPTURE1: Invalid argument
>VIDIOCMCAPTURE0: Invalid argument
>VIDIOCMCAPTURE1: Invalid argument
>....
>
>And it keeps filling my console with them. All I see is a black image...
>
>On a side note - I don't have a soundcard in this machine because its a 
>testing system. However I can't see how that might affect myth and watching 
>tv...
>
>Can anyone help me with this because even googling didn't help...
>
>Berend Dekens
>
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