[mythtv-users] Problem recording at 720x576

[Steve Dobson]

Steve

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:39:04PM +0100, Stephen Tait wrote:
> >When I set 720x576, I get a full picture in the top left of my monitor
> >window that's about 80% the size of the screen.  There's a black
> >border on the right, and at the bottom of the screen there is a large
> >flickering green bar.  The available picture is also quite distorted,
> >although it's still recognisable.
> >
> >Off the top of my head, I've got the usual PAL settings in the ivtv
> >section of modules.conf (ivtv_pal=1, that sort of thing), and like I
> >said everything is fine at 640x480.  I'm using ivtv 0.1.9, but was
> >thing of trying out the 0.1.10-pre2 with Chris Kennedy's patches.
> 
> I have exactly the same problem - whenever I set the capture to anything 
> larger than 640x480 (standard PAL res IIRC) I too get the snowy borders at 
> the bottom and right of the screen.
> 
> Module config as as such:
> 
> alias char-major-81     videodev
> alias char-major-81-0   ivtv
> alias char-major-61             lirc_i2c
> options ivtv debug=0 mpg_buffers=30 ivtv_pal=1
> options tuner type=1
> options saa7127 pal=1 enable_output=1 output_select=0
> add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 saa7127 tuner
> add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c
> 
> The paramaters I pass to test_ioctl after the module is loaded (for some 
> reason, the "post-install" option in modules.d doesn't seem to want to 
> work, so I have to run this script on startup) are:
> 
> test_ioctl -u 0xff                      #Sets to PAL input
> test_ioctl -p 4                         #Sets input to TV tuner
> test_ioctl -f width=640,height=480

I don't have access to my settings ATM, but I'm sure I had set the
width and height to 720x576 (well I also had "-p 0" but then I wantted
to grab from my Sky box).
 
> Capture is straight from an analogue aerial - anyone have any ideas?

Hope this helps

Steve