[mythtv] IVTV VBI reading

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Thu Jan 18 17:35:09 UTC 2007


On Thursday 18 January 2007 4:31 am, Robin Gilks wrote:
> Greetings
>
> Is it possible to turn off the reading of /dev/vbi0 from an ivtv stream to
> alleviate the ivtv driver problems if the capture resolution is not 'full
> screen' (720x576 here in PAL country). I'd like to at least check that not
> reading the vbi stream gets rid of the video artifact hassles that the
> last few versions of the driver have suffered.

We don't read from /dev/vbiX with ivtv cards.  It asks the driver to embed the 
stream in the mpeg data.  You can disable _that_ by just setting the 'VBI 
Format' setting in mythtv-setup to 'none'.

Isaac


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