[mythtv-users] [ivtv-users] Scrambled signal

[Mike]

John Pierce wrote:
> I am running suse 10.1, have had no problems with ivtv and mythtv on a
> pvr500, all of a sudden watching tv or recording the composite the
> signal resembles one of the blit pattern tests on a graphics card,
> that is little (variable in size) squares making up the entire screen.
>  I did an ivtvctl -a and the video standard indicated that it was one
> of the pal standards, so I tried to set the standard with ivtvctl -u
> 10 or 11 or 12 which are the ntsc-j -k -m standards respectively.
> Nothing corrected the problem.  I have not upgraded the system and for
> a while, kernel 2.6.16-21.0.13 from opensuse with a matching build of
> ivtv 0.7.0 and a subsequent kernel module.
>
> The input is connected to the composite and is from a DirecTV d11-100 receiver.
>
> John
>   
For one, your running the wrong version of ivtv if you have 0.7.0, thats 
for 2.6.17.

0.6.x is for kernels 2.6.16, and 0.8.x is for 2.6.18.... Everything else 
is 0.4.x Its like this because its getting integrated into the kernel.

http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page

-Mike