[mythtv-users] Red bt8x8 capture?

[Bruce Markey]

Jonathan Markevich wrote:
> Every few captures I do (1 in 5) doesn't work - the picture is EXTREMELY 
> dark with only red making up the picture.  If this happens when 
> switching to live TV, I just exit and re-enter, it seems to wake up.  If 
> this is on timer, though, it can be a problem.  I've missed a few shows 
> because of it.  Has anyone else come across that, and found a 
> solution/cause?

It's come up many times and was the result of a bug in the
bttv driver for about a year. It was fixed a couple months ago
and the fix is included in the current video4linux snapshots
at bytesex.org or with linux version 2.6.9.

--  bjm