[mythtv-users] Trouble recording B&W movies (old WinTV card)

Carl Fongheiser carlfongheiser at gmail.com
Sat Sep 24 14:21:32 UTC 2005


On 9/24/05, Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm capturing analog NTSC with an old WinTV card (Bt 878). It seems to
> work fine for everything except old black & white movies. Recent attempts to
> record "Notorious" and "Arsenic and Old Lace" on different days both failed,
> capturing only broken blocks of video and chyopped audio -- although color
> lead-ins captured fine. Has anyone else seen a similar problem, or does
> anyone have suggestions for troubleshooting?
>
> Mythfilldatabase is not running during the record. The machine is a P4 3
> GHz with plenty of disk space and an HD-3000, running current svn.


Do you have any odd messages in dmesg or the backend log? I regularly record
B&W movies from Turner Classic Movies and the local community college
channel on my BT878 card (a KWorld card), and I've never seen anything like
this.

Carl Fongheiser
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