[mythtv-users] [REPOST] svideo trouble

Josh Trutwin josh at trutwins.homeip.net
Mon Oct 29 23:08:15 UTC 2007


Sorry for the repost - curious if anyone has any pointers or anything
else I can provide to help troubleshoot?

Thanks,

Josh

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:13:33 -0500
Josh Trutwin <josh at trutwins.homeip.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Still pretty new to Mythtv, have a PVR 500 and working live TV on
> the composite (coax)x input.  I was trying to hook up a VCR via the
> svideo connection and having a heck of a time getting it to work.
> 
> What I did (after some googling):
> 
> Started myth-setup - noticed there were 2 svideo inputs on each
> card, so I created a "dummy" video source for each with no grabber
> (4 total). 
> 
> Went to the channel editor and added a dummy channel for each of
> the 4 svideo sources - picked channel 3, matched the input source
> but did not give the channel a frequency or anything.
> 
> Created input sources for each using the above.  I noticed channel 3
> was the starting channel so I also put 3 in the preset channel - not
> sure if this even matters since I tried it without that too.
> 
> Ran mythfillbackend and started up the frontend.  LiveTV still
> worked fine, pressed C and switched to the first svideo on the
> first card - nothing but a black screen (even though a tape was
> playing in the VCR
> - pressing menu / display on the remote didn't show anything).
> Pressed C again, this time showed the second svideo on the first
> card.  Still black.  Pressed C again, went back to LiveTV, not to
> the second card svideo inputs.
> 
> Anyway, I'm out of ideas.  Was thinking of maybe just hooking up the
> VCR to the second card's composite for now, but would like to get
> svideo working since I bought the cables for it.  :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Josh
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