[mythtv-users] PCHDTV-5500 Sound and Contrast on ubuntu

mooshie nsmith5 at umbc.edu
Tue Jun 27 00:22:28 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 18:07 -0400, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 15:10 -0400, Nathan Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Brad Templeton wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:26:28AM -0400, Nathan Smith wrote:
> > > This makes no sense.  All HDTV "capture" cards are pretty much the same,
> > > they just decode a raw bitstream out of the air, which is an mpeg-2/ts.
> > Are you sure that the internals of the 5500 are the same as other HDTV
> > capture cards? Even if it uses the same chipset, who's to know what other
> > algorithms are run on the data before it is sent to the video device.
> Brad is correct.
> 
> <snip>
> > The "PCHDTV" option in mythtv-setup does not work at all, so I was forced
> > to go with an analog capture card setting. That could be the problem, but
> > I see no other option. I'm guessing the PCHDTV option is for the 3000 and
> > previous cards, since the 5500 is running on a new chipset, AFAIK. Other
> > than the settings problems, the playback looks superb.
> You've configured the analog portion of the card, you should
> use the DVB card settings for the HD-5500 for ATSC capture.
> It is quite possible that the analog portion of the card has
> the wrong default picture settings, I've yet to test the analog
> portion of that card and most non-bttv frame capture card
> require modified default picture settings.

Although, is what you're saying applicable to QAM streams as well?

Nate




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