[mythtv-users] Green block of static at the top of the screen then nothing

[Martin Wolff]

Checked the metal box, labeled NTSC. 
Any other ideas?  
There is no picture at all.  It isn't a picture with a green bar on
top.  Just no picture.


On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:58:27 -0800, Courtland Jones
<courtland.jones at gmail.com> wrote:
> I also had this problem, using a BT848 card that was a few years old,
> but was still perfectly usable. I must have somehow only used it for
> S-VID or Composite input, and never realized that it had a PAL tuner.
> 
> When I tried using it for standard TV-tuning, all I would get is a
> green bar at the top, static, that sort of thing. What you may want to
> do is take your card out and try to determine whether the tuner module
> (usually the big metal box sitting on top of the card, not the Bt8x8
> or whatever chip) is NTSC or PAL. I myself had a Temic PAL tuner, and
> I have no idea how I came to purchase it in an everyday store here in
> the States. (Because I live in the US, I really don't know if, say,
> people in the EU would suffer a similar fate when trying to use an
> NTSC tuner module to decode PAL broadcasts.)
> 
> 
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 19:45:26 -0600, Martin Wolff <mwolff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm having this issue, that I actually had before with Freevo, where
> > the top of the screen is basically a green block of static when I try
> > to watch tv.
> >
> > I fixed this with freevo by
> > modprobe -r bttv && modprobe bttv tuner=10
> >
> > However, that doesn't seem to work in this case.
> >
> > Any ideas what the problem could be?  I did some googling and found a
> > lot of references to green problems, but they don't seem to be quite
> > the problem I'm having.
> >
> > it is a Wintv Go-Plus card
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > 
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