[mythtv-users] Xawtv works MythTV Live TV & Recording don't

[Lane Schwartz]

On Apr 7, 2005 10:35 PM, Travis Gilbert <travis.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> After switching to CVS to solve the DST problem, I found that, while
> my program listings were correct, I could no longer watch Live TV or
> record.  Myth isn't seeing my TV Wonder VE.  I've cleaned CVS and
> rebuilt, rebuilt the driver and kernel (2.6.11-r5), moved the card
> into different PCI slots, changed my configuration in
> /etc/modules.d/bttv, etc.  I've even shut everything down, rebuilt the
> kernel + bttv module, booted into the kernel, and then rebuilt Myth
> from CVS (after 'make clean'ing).
> 
> I have searched the list archives for any possible solution and tried
> everything I've found.  I have worked and searched on this problem for
> about 10 hours over the past few days.  I still have no luck.  I can't
> figure out if it's just a config or something simple, but I'm not
> completely new to the *nix platform and ran this box with MythTV for
> about 6 months before the DST problem.
> 
> I can view TV through Xawtv with the -noxv option (no sound) and
> verify sound with the alsa configuration utility.  Any suggestions
> will be greatly appreciated.  If you think it's a "newb" problem,
> please, instead of flaming, just point me somewhere (I've tried
> google, various list archives, and every related HOWTO I can find).

Make sure that you are set to the proper TV type in mythtvsetup (NTSC,
PAL, ATSC).

For a while I had mine set to ATSC while I was working on adding an
Air2PC HDTV card, and when I forgot to switch it back my WinTV card
showed up black and white in Myth, even though it worked fine in
xawtv.

Lane


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