[mythtv-users] New to mythtv, need help

[Bill Baker]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 23:02 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/26/2006 10:54 PM, Bill Baker wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 22:49 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >   
> >> On 01/26/2006 10:29 PM, Bill Baker wrote:
> >>     
> >>> 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?
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Red and white cables are audio, yellow is composite video.  Therefore, 
> >> you probably want red, white, and S-Video.
> >>     
> > So I want to unplug just the yellow cable and plug in an S-video cable?
> > Would that make a difference, since I can actually get a TV recording by
> > typing "cat /dev/video0 >/video/recording/temp_capture.mpg" and playing
> > it back with mplayer?  What are the advantages of S-video compared to
> > composite?
> >   
> 
> Basically, composite mixes 3 pieces of information in one signal.
> 
> S-Video breaks the 3 pieces of info into 2 "components"
> 
> Component video breaks the 3 pieces of info into 3 "components"
> 
> So, you can think of each step up (each new component) providing more 
> bandwidth, allowing for better picture quality.
> 
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video for more details.

OK, thanks.  I'll consider that after I get my system going. :-\