[mythtv-users] Force Pal? Possible?

[John Harvey]

I believe it should. But you could always set up a channel change program
which runs a script to set pal or ntsc .

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konstantinos Stathatos [mailto:kstathatos at yahoo.com]
> Sent: 29 November 2004 22:08
> To: john.p.harvey at btinternet.com; Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Force Pal? Possible?
> 
> 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:
> >
> >
> >>>Try adding the below line to your modprobe.conf -
> >>>
> >>>
> >>it did it for me (I'm
> >>
> >>
> >>>unsure what the second parameter does though):
> >>>
> >>>options ivtv ivtv_std=2 tda9887=0
> >>>
> >>>
> >>THanks, but it turns out that i already have
> >>
> >>options ivtv ivtv_std=2 ivtv_pal=1 tda9887=0
> >>
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