[mythtv-users] Change Channel script to only alter Volume for first 3 seconds

Anders Blomgren chankster at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 08:12:17 UTC 2006


v4lctl is found in the xawtv package.

Anders


On 1/16/06, Martijn Morriën <dj.escay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a saa7134 video tuner card (Terratec 400) the picture quality is
> great and the sound works but there is one very annoying issue:
> after changing a channel you hear a loud noise / hiss during the first
> seconds after the sound frequency is correctly found everything is ok.
>
> This problem has been worked around in some other programs like e.g.
> TvTime by setting the volume to 0 the first seconds and then the volume is
> faded in to the normal level. I haven't seen such an option in MythTv
>
> What I would like to do is to create a change channel script that sets the
> volume to 0, changes channel and after 3 seconds e.g. restores the level.
> An example of such a script has been created and can be seen at
> http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=34189&
>
> But my problem is that I have Fedora Core 4 running (Jarod Wilson's howto)
> and I don't have v4l tools installed so I have no v4lctl to change channels.
> I can only find Suse 10 rpms to install v4l tools, is this gonna work on
> Fedora Core 4 ??
>
> My questions:
> - is there an option in MythTv to fade in after changing channels? If not:
> - how can I change channels from a command line, is there an MythTv API I
> can 'talk' to? or do I need v4lctl, are there alternatives?
>
> Suggestions, hints etc are welcome!
> thank you,
>
> Martijn
>
>
> Other threads about the same problem:
> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2004-June/023397.html
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/111965?search_string=terratec%20change%20channel%20script;#111965
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