[mythtv-users] PVR-150 Tuner Quality Issues

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Apr 18 01:18:38 UTC 2006


On 04/17/2006 08:46 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:

>On 4/16/06, Michael Horn <mjhorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>> Thanks everyone for the input so far. I've made some progress with the
>>picture quality, through a combination of fine tuning the frequencies as
>>well as adjusting some of the brightness,contrast etc settings on the card.
>>Ive been adjusting the brightness and whatnot using ivtvctl -y
>>brightness=xxx, but it seems that this is reset by mythtv each time the
>>channel is changed. are there global or possibly per channel settings within
>>myth I should be using instead?
>>    
>>
>
>tune to the channel in live TV and set the contrast/brightness/etc
>settings you want for that channel. these settings are saved
>per-channel in the database and mythbackend uses them when it tunes to
>that channel for live tv or recordings.
>

Make sure you use the recording settings ("G") not the playback settings 
("F") to change how it's recorded.  If you want to copy the values to 
multiple channels, MythWeb's channel settings page makes it easy.

Mike


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