[mythtv-users] Force Pal? Possible?

[Konstantinos Stathatos]

John,

If I understand what you're saying correctly, mythbackend can switch 
between PAL and NTSC based on channel configuration without restarting, 
right? Do you have any idea if this is supposed to work with the PVR350? 
I've tried using it and it didn't seem to work. I have no problem 
switching PAL/NTSC outside MythTV.

Here's what I was trying to do. My regular TV input is a Dish receiver 
feeding NTSC signal through S-Video. I also have a PAL Hi8 camcorder 
with S-Video out. I'd like to be able to digitize my PAL Hi8 tapes, 
through MythTV if possible. What I tried doing, was to create a "fake" 
PAL channel (my default setting is NTSC) so that when I connect my 
camcorder to the PVR350 S-Video (replacing the Dish signal), switch to 
the fake channel, and record the PAL signal. I had no luck with that.

Do you know if there is a way to make this work somehow?

Kostas

John Harvey wrote:

>I havent been following this but
>
>you dont need both ivtv_std & ivtv_pal
>
>If you are using new drivers the ivtv_std is all you
>should have.
>
>mythbackend resets the PAL/NTSC setting based on the
>channel configuration when it starts so make sure that
>your channels are configures as PAL.
>I'm not entirely convinced that ivtv should honour
>that call from myth if its wrong. I'm not really sure
>that being able to set ntsc mode from an application
>when the driver has been told to run in pal mode is
>sensible but i dont think we need to change that now.
>
>John
>
>John
> --- j2 <spamfilter2 at mupp.net> wrote: 
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>>>Try adding the below line to your modprobe.conf -
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>>it did it for me (I'm 
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>>>unsure what the second parameter does though):
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>>>options ivtv ivtv_std=2 tda9887=0
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>>THanks, but it turns out that i already have
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>>options ivtv ivtv_std=2 ivtv_pal=1 tda9887=0
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