[mythtv-users] xawtv / motv show blue, mythtv shows green static
Michael J. Lynch
mlynch at gcom.com
Tue Oct 26 12:08:05 UTC 2004
I see this exact problem when the standard (PAL/NTSC) is set incorrectly.
E.G. I'm in US so NTSC is standard and if xawtv is set to PAL it does
exactly what you describe.
Courtland Jones wrote:
>I finally managed to get mythtv up and running on my debian unstable
>box, running 2.6.8-1-686-smp kernel, with my (older than pharaoh)
>bt848 card, and I can even get TV listings and record shows.
>
>Problem is they're all static! In MythTV, if I go to watch TV, the
>twop third, sometimes top two-thirds of the screen is static, lower
>portion is green screen. If I go into xawtv or motv (or whatever) it
>shows just a blue screen, which makes me think that overlay is not a
>problem, but getting channels is. I can't seem to tune any channels on
>my tuner! In xawtv and motv, I could select us-cable, and ntsc video
>mode, but there was no choice for video input source. My bt848 card
>has a composite-in, SVID-in, and of course cable tuner. Any way other
>than xawtv / motv to get channels tuned? Is something wrong with my
>bttv driver? Any ideas on what I should do to try and fix this
>nonsense?
>
>Here is my lsmod if that is any help:
>
>Module Size Used by
>nvidia 4822580 12
>ipv6 281636 17
>appletalk 41744 20
>af_packet 23976 2
>bttv 157356 0
>video_buf 22788 1 bttv
>i2c_algo_bit 10056 1 bttv
>v4l2_common 6368 1 bttv
>btcx_risc 5032 1 bttv
>i2c_core 24576 2 bttv,i2c_algo_bit
>videodev 10304 1 bttv
>snd_ens1371 26500 1
>snd_rawmidi 26084 1 snd_ens1371
>snd_seq_device 8456 1 snd_rawmidi
>snd_ac97_codec 70884 1 snd_ens1371
>gameport 5120 1 snd_ens1371
>tsdev 7616 0
>mousedev 10736 1
>joydev 10240 0
>usbhid 32736 0
>uhci_hcd 34096 0
>usbcore 122148 4 usbhid,uhci_hcd
>pci_hotplug 35708 0
>intel_agp 23072 1
>evdev 9824 0
>pcspkr 3884 0
>3c59x 40456 0
>agpgart 35436 2 intel_agp
>capability 4744 0
>commoncap 7552 1 capability
>snd_pcm_oss 55880 0
>snd_pcm 102948 2 snd_ens1371,snd_pcm_oss
>snd_page_alloc 12008 1 snd_pcm
>snd_timer 27428 1 snd_pcm
>snd_mixer_oss 20384 1 snd_pcm_oss
>snd 59652 10 snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97
>_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
>soundcore 10880 2 bttv,snd
>ide_cd 43232 0
>cdrom 41148 1 ide_cd
>rtc 14184 0
>ext2 74504 0
>ext3 129640 2
>jbd 70520 1 ext3
>mbcache 10340 2 ext2,ext3
>ide_generic 1632 0
>piix 13824 1
>ide_disk 19648 4
>ide_core 142556 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,piix,ide_disk
>sd_mod 22144 0
>ata_piix 8420 0
>libata 42020 1 ata_piix
>scsi_mod 127972 2 sd_mod,libata
>unix 31092 404
>font 8544 0
>vesafb 6880 0
>cfbcopyarea 4064 1 vesafb
>cfbimgblt 3264 1 vesafb
>cfbfillrect 4000 1 vesafb
>
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