[mythtv-users] Dark Screen

[Bruce Markey]

David Greene wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been fighting a problem with my WinTV Theater in both live TV
> and recording mode.  After some time watching live TV or after some
> time in a recording (somewhere between 5 minutes and 20 minutes),
> the picture suddenly goes very dark.  Changing channels fixes the
> problem, but recordings are ruined because the dark picture is
> actually recorded that way.  I am running version 0.14 under
> a stock linux 2.6.2.
> 
> Has anyone experienced this problem?

Yes, this has come up a few times already. The is a problem
with bttv 0.9.12. Reverting to 0.9.11 will fix it.

--  bjm