[mythtv-users] mythtv does not set PAL/NTSC correctly

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 23 January 2004 11:09 am, Rich Harkins wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:39, Claudio Fleiner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > currently mythtv does not seem to set NTSC correctly in my setup.
> > If I set it by hand before calling mythfrontend it works just
> > fine. However, recordings are made in PAL. I have selected NTSC
> > in the setup, but from all I can tell mythtv does not change that
> > particular setting of my WinTV card at all.
> >
> > My setup: RH 9, Via Epia M6000 board, mythtv 0.13, WinTV Hauppauge
> > card using v4l linux, Kernel 2.4.24
> >
> > Any ideas what needs to be changed?
> I ran across this when setting my box up this week.  I have no idea what
> the issue is, and added a bunch of debugging around channel.cpp's SetFormat
> method (which was my best guess as to the code that controls that).  The
> debugging, sadly, didn't end up leading me to a conclusion -- other than
> the only way I could get it to work was by adding fmt = "NTSC" after the
> first fmt = if block (I'm not in front of my myth box, so I can't give you
> an exact line #).  After recompiling/installing it works like a champ.

Thanks for reading the website, guys.  3rd bit on the main page, from right 
after the 0.13 release announcement.

Isaac