[mythtv-users] New to mythtv, need help

[Bill Baker]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 13:04 -0800, G S wrote:
> I don't quite understand how you have your PVR-350 hooked up to your
> tv. I'm assuming you're using a video out from your video card to the
> TV screen. If this is so, I'm not sure exactly how you would set that
> up. My recommendation is to just run xorg off the PVR-350's S-video
> out. That's the way I have mine setup and there's instructions for it
> in the Fedora Mythtv guide. 

So I shouldn't use the red, white and yellow cables and just use the
S-video adapter?  Or should I use the S-video adapter in addition to the
red, white and yellow cables?

> Things to make sure of if you set it up this way:
> 
> 1. Be sure you append "vga=791" to the end of kernel /vmz lines in
> your grub.conf before you try to run x on your s-video out. This step
> is easily missed in the Fedora guide as it's not in one of the grey
> code boxes. It's located near the center of the page in the guide. 
> 
> 2. In your mythtv setup, you want to set your card to mpeg2 encoder
> compatible or something like that. I don't have the setup open in
> front of me but the default setting is not correct for the PVR-350.
> Also, you do want to use Tuner 0. This selects the tuner as the input
> stream.
> 
> 3. In the mythtv frontend options, be sure to enable the PVR-350's TV
> out/mpeg encoder. It's located in the TV settings > playback category.
> The options line below that should read /dev/video16
> 
> 4. DO NOT rebuild your system's ramdisk as stated in the Fedora guide.
> Some stuff has changed around since the last update to the guide. If
> you try to rebuild the ramdisk so the driver loads earlier your system
> won't boot up. So just skip this step until the guide has been updated
> again. 

Yeah, I did all of that.  I know about the ramdisk, because I had to
rebuild a default one when I found out the one they tell you to make
doesn't work.