[mythtv-users] Black and White recording, but only on 2 channels

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/08/2006 08:37 AM, pfine at comcast.net wrote:
> I am a newbie to Mythtv.  I have just finished building my system which uses a PVR-350. I used Jarod Wilson's Fedora Howto and managed to get Mythtv up and running in a relatively short time.  It is still in beta-testing for me (i.e.; I haven't hooked it up to my wife's TV yet).  I am running 0.19 (0.19-125.rhfc4.at)
>
> I have two problems that I can't figure out.
>
> 1) Channels 5 and 6 recordings (and LiveTV) are black and white.  Channel 5 has no sound and channel 6 has bad sound, low volume and static.  The PVR-350 is connected directly to the cable, so the PVR-350 is being used as the tuner.  All the other channels work fine.
>   

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/190848#190848

> 2) I get no icons to display while watching LiveTV.  I assume that when I am watching 1 station and using the channel up/down keys to see what is on the other stations, I should see some indication of the channel.  I see the show information and a box to the left of the info with the word "channel" at the top, but no channel number or icon or callsign.  I downloaded the iconmap.xml and ran :
>
>      % mythfilldatabase --import-icon-map iconmap.xml --update-icon-map
>
> but that did not seem to help.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Channel icons are stored in the $HOME/.mythtv/channels directory by 
mythfilldatabase.  Make sure the user running mythfrontend is the same 
user that ran the mythfilldatabase icon import (or hack the script that 
starts mythfrontend to set the HOME environment variable to be that of 
the user who ran mythfilldatabase icon import).

See thread at 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/182172#182172
Mike