[mythtv-users] difficulties using svideo input on pvr-350

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Feb 2 08:53:58 UTC 2008


On 02/01/2008 04:42 PM, George Mari wrote:
> Gabe Rubin wrote:
>   
>> I recently switched my input from the tuner (from and STB) to the
>> svideo input (using an svideo to composite adapter).  I changed the
>> setting in mythtv-setup to ensure that my capture card is using the
>> svideo 1 input, rather than the tuner, and at first, everything seems
>> to go fine.
>>
>> However, after a while, it seems that it reverts to the tuner, and all
>> i capture is static.  I can manually enter "v4l2-ctl -i 1" at the
>> command line, and this fixes things, but it does not seem to last.  Is
>> there some other setting I need to add?  How can I make this setting
>> stick?
> What you did should work, but since it's not, you may want to try 
> deleting your capture card and re-adding it.
>
> Actually, I guess you should "Delete all"?  Whenever anything related to 
> capture card trouble appears on the list, the first thing that pops into 
> my head is Michael T. Dean's mantra, "Delete all capture cards" - and 
> I've never even had any capture card/lineup trouble!
>
> Well anyway, this is just a guess, really.  Maybe someone will have a 
> better idea.

My work here is done.  :)

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034

Mike


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