[mythtv-users] Begging for help with live TV freeze

[Curtis Wood]

   Just as an FYI, Im not using any signal amplifier's and have the
cable split like four times, VCR, TV (A&B) and MythTV. When using the
tuner, the thing I noticed is tune the channel (adjusting the finetune
field) to where the color is saturated, and simply does not look good -
then use the MythTV controls to make everything look good.

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 11:18, bobnvic at everestkc.net wrote:
> Curtis Wood wrote:
> > > > Alan Snyder wrote:
> > > > > A number of people, myself included, have reported
> > > > > frontend freezes in live TV, the symptom being
> > > > frozen picture and sound, the frontend spitting out
> > > > "Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting
> > > > > again...", and the backend seemingly working normally.
> > > > >  
> >   Ive been playing around with MythTV, finally have it reliably 
> > runningon my cable system. At first I was having a few of these 
> > lock ups my self, I resolved the lock ups by finetuning the 
> > channels. Essentially it looks as though MythTV does not like 
> > weak signals. 
> snip
> 
> I've know I had a weak signal (using a four-way non-amplified 
> splitter) so this is definitely something worth looking into for
> me.  I've thought about getting an amplified splitter, but didn't
> know if it was worth the $50 since the picture looks great on my
> PVR-250 and pretty good on my bttv card.  The signal on the TV and
> vcr from the same splitter look terrible, however.  I'm very
> impressed with the quality of the tuner in the capture cards, but
> I'll give the amplified splitter at radioshack mentioned recently
> in another post a try.
> 
> Thanks for idea!
> Bob C
> 
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