[mythtv-users] Re: Still having audio problems with upgraded 0.11

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Jarod C. Wilson
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 3:39 AM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Still having audio problems with upgraded
> 0.11
>
>
> On Friday, Chris Poch wrote:
>
> > A helpful sidenote for anyone else having the same problem: mythtv
> > seems to use the same settings as xawtv for TV tuner related settings.
> >  Xawtv always defaults to the same settings.  If you have the same
> > problem, make sure to set the correct audio mode, color system, etc in
> > xawtv before closing it.  Otherwise, you will find that mythtv is
> > trying to run with the PAL color system.
>
> Um, not quite. If you set your tuner up correctly in MythTV's setup
> utility, MythTV should always use what you've specified in there. Among
> the things you're supposed to specify are TV format (set it to NTSC, in
> your case) and channel frequency table (likely either us-bcast or
> us-cable, for those in the US). MythTV has no reliance on your xawtv
> settings. I never even used xawtv on my system...
>
> > I can't use mplayer to show live video off my tuner card, but then
> > again, I don't have a hardware encoder (don't know if that matters).
>
> mplayer works with both hardware encoder cards and vanilla tv tuner
> cards; you just have to throw it different switches.

Plus, you've got to have mplayer compiled with V4L support for bttv tuner
cards; not sure if that's the default or not.  Probably is if you're using a
prepackaged binary.

-JAC