[mythtv-users] Problems viewing TV using an ATI TV-Wonder and AsusA7N266-VM

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Saturday, Aug 30, 2003, at 06:00 US/Pacific, Michael Greb wrote:

> Steven Sartorius said:
> <snip>
>> MythTV built and installed with no problems and I am able to watch
>> .avi/.mpg
>> files full screen with sound using mplayer.  The problems arise when 
>> I try
>> to watch TV.  Before I tackled MythTV I tried to get xawtv going, 
>> just to
>> make sure my card was capturing cable correctly.   Starting up xawtv
>> resulted in an immediate segfault (even after I installed the correct
>> fonts!).  I was only able to get xawtv to run by manually specifying 
>> the
>> /dev/video0 device on the command line.  Initially, I was only able 
>> to get
>> a
>> blue screen -- this was with the bttv module autoprobe defaults 
>> (card=63
>> and
>> tuner=19).  Searching the archives I saw people recommending the 
>> tuner be
>> defined as 2 so I tried that with (almost) the same result -- this 
>> time I
>> got 2 channels (5 and 6) both in washed out color.  At this point I 
>> popped
>> open my case and took a look at the sticker on my tuner -- it was
>> identified
>> as a '4036 FY5 TEMIC 3X1 981'.  According to the CARDLIST file in the 
>> bttv
>> documentation this was a type 8 tuner (Temic NTSC).  So I tried that 
>> and
>> got
>> the same dismal results as before.  Getting desperate now, I went 
>> down the
>> list of tuner types (still keeping the card at 63).  All the NTSC type
>> tuners I tried resulted in blue screens or a handful of (washed out)
>> channels.  I had better luck with some of the PAL tuners -- on 
>> several of
>> them I was able to view TV, in color, but fuzzy and distorted and 
>> with the
>> channels off by one.  At this point I'm thinking I've got a bad card 
>> or
>> maybe there's a problem with my mobo/kernel combination.  Anybody 
>> have any
>> insight......???
>
> Have you tried telling XawTV to use NTSC as opposed to PAL?  I believe 
> it
> has a setting for this and I had similiar results until switching this.


You might also look at ftvco (Find TV Card Options). A decent little 
script that'll try a ton of combinations for you, with xawtv previews, 
and no need to continually edit /etc/modules.conf, unload and reload 
modules manually.

http://www.mind.lu/~yg/ftvco/

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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