[mythtv-users] Newbie questions, but not stupid ones (I hope)

[Warren]

Here is my setup:
Centos 4.2 x86_64
Myth 0.19
WinPVR 250
pcHDTV 3000 (dvb drivers, cable QAM-256)

Cards are up and running - recordings are being made.  Thanks to
everyone around the web who mentioned that the ivtv version of
tveeprom.ko needed to be removed, that was my one stumbling block.

Questions:
(1) Why do the HDTV recordings only show solid blue where the video
should be when I play them back even though the little thumbnail video
in the media library screen shows that the proper show was recorded?
This happens on both the server where the shows were recorded and my
laptop which mounts /mnt/store via nfs and shares the mythconverg
database.  Server is an ATI AIW 8500 and the laptop is i810 i think
(Dell Inspiron 700m).

(2) Is there a way to watch live TV on a remote mythtv box that does not
have a card in it - in other words, use the video capture card from the
server to watch live TV from a remote location.  Since the front and
back ends are separate anyway and I have /mnt/store mounted locally
through nfs, it seems to me this should be possible, and that perhaps I
just missed something.


Thanks,
Warren