[mythtv-users] IVTV issues (video scrambled looking)

[Mickey Chandler]

At 11:24 AM 6/3/2006, Brian Wood wrote:
 >Very strange. The mpeg actually seems to be good, by that I mean it
 >has accurately recorded what it was asked to record, and it plays
 >back without errors. In other words whatever is causing the problem
 >is ahead of the mpeg encoder.

That's not good news.

 >The information is all there, just not locked.
 >
 >Is it possible that this signal is being encoded in some way as to
 >prevent recording ? I know you said it played OK on a TV set but that
 >might not mean anything. It almost looks like Macrovision, but in the
 >horizontal not the vertical, and a Macrovision signal will look OK on
 >a TV but won't allow a VCR to get a good servo lock.

Well, the cable guys asked me why I didn't just buy a TiVO and hook 
it up.  Unless TiVO knows something that Myth doesn't, then I'm 
guessing that this shouldn't be the case.

 >At this point I would say the video signal is non-standard in some
 >way that prevents the capture card from locking, but I really need
 >more information.

What information do you need and how could I go about getting it?

--
Mickey Chandler


"Heisenberg may have slept here"