[mythtv-users] Record defaulting to PAL vice NTSC

[steve at nexusuk.org]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, matt wrote:

> If I open xawtv, set to NTSC, then close it, run backend & frontend, and
> then view live tv it works fine (i.e. is set to NTSC). This really baffles
> me.

Not sure if this is at all related, but if the bttv module isn't loaded on 
my machine when Myth starts up then it gets automagically modprobed when 
Myth opens the device (as it should) but then Myth fails to set the 
channel (It gets "frequency out of range" errors or somesuch ISTR, which 
is very odd since I'm using Svideo).  After that, Myth will never be able 
to set the channel until I rmmod the module or reboot the box.  My 
solution is to startup mythbackend in a script that does:

	modprobe bttv
	sleep 1
	mythbackend

Try that and see if it works around your problem (I assume that if you try 
to access the bttv driver immediately after it's loaded then it's still 
doing some initialisation and things break).

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