[mythtv-users] Re:Not recording anything using CVS (7/30)

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of aaron
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 7:29 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re:Not recording anything using CVS (7/30)
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:47:07 -0500 spake Trey of:
>
> > Am I the only one having this trouble? If I can't get help
> here, are there
> > other message boards I should try? Everything still works,
> except recording.
> > Somebody please help, I'm getting desperate.
>
> I'm not seeing the same behaviour, but recording isn't working
> properly for me
> either.
>
> I upgraded from Slackware 8.1 to Slackware 9.0 this weekend. Prior to the
> upgrade (read: complete reinstall) Myth was working pretty much perfectly.
> Now, when I record, the tuner seems to go out of tune. The
> picture is black &
> white and... I don't know to describe how wrong the picture
> looks. Definitely
> looks out of tune. The sound seems to work. The whole program
> seems to record
> this way (but it's unwatchable), and then watching LiveTV doesn't
> work (same
> problem). If I fire up TVTime, the tuning goes back to normal,
> until the next
> time I try to record something.
>
> Was using CVS from last Tuesday before the upgrade, now it's CVS
> from Sunday.
> Kernel went from 2.4.20 to 2.4.21 (maybe the bttv module broke?)


Sounds like when you reinstalled Myth you may have configured it to use the
wrong cable tuning standard.  Go into your backend setup and check your
"Channel Frequency Table" setting (under "General").

-JAC