What application are you using to record or view or whatever? Check what
it thinks the TV standard is. I suspect it is set to V4L2_STD_NTSC_M_JP
instead of plain V4L2_STD_NTSC_M.
Hans
On Thursday 30 March 2006 23:37, Berant Lemmenes wrote:
> Hmm well that's not good... as I live in the USA so standard NTSC.
>
> And as a typical American I didn't even think that it would default
> to something else! ;)
>
> I'm not using any module options when loading the ivtv module
> (module.conf snip)
>
> # cat /etc/modprobe.conf
> alias eth0 forcedeth
> alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> options snd-card-0 index=0
> options snd-intel8x0 index=0
> remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
> alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
> alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
>
> # ivtv (PVR-500MCE)
> alias char-major-81 videodev
> alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
>
> is there a module option to force the type? I did some quick checks
> on the ivtvdriver.org site and didn't see anything. I'll start
> googling.
>
> Thanks for the quick response!
>
> Best regards,
> Berant
>
> Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >On Thursday 30 March 2006 22:50, Berant Lemmenes wrote:
> >>Hello all,
> >>
> >>I've recently setup a mythv system with a single PVR-500, taking
> >>input from a Comcast basic (non-digital) cable feed.
> >>
> >>The issue I'm having is that the first tuner on the PVR-500
> >> (tuner0) will automatically mute it's self when tuning to certain
> >> channels. Once this happens I can't un-mute the card (via ivtvctl
> >> -y mute=0 -d /dev/video0), and have to remove the ivtv module and
> >> reload it.
> >>
> >>I can it's not just the lower frequency channels ( which I under
> >>stand overlap with the FM radio range) either, it will mute when
> >>tuning to us-cable channel 8 (181.250 MHz), as well as channel 62
> >>(451.250 MHz) but works fine on 33 (277.250 MHz).
> >>
> >>While tuner1 works great on all the channels.
> >>
> >>Visually there is not much of a difference as far as quality (other
> >>than some ghosting on channel 8), and the audio sounds perfect when
> >>listening on tuner1.
> >>
> >>#ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 --log-status while muted
> >>ivtv0: ================= START STATUS CARD #0 =================
> >>cx25840 2-0044: Video signal: present
> >>cx25840 2-0044: Detected format: NTSC-M
> >>cx25840 2-0044: Detected audio mode: mono
> >>cx25840 2-0044: Detected audio standard: EIAJ
> >>cx25840 2-0044: Audio muted: yes
> >>cx25840 2-0044: Audio microcontroller: running
> >>cx25840 2-0044: Configured audio standard: automatic detection
> >>cx25840 2-0044: Configured audio system: EIAJ
> >>cx25840 2-0044: Specified standard: NTSC-J
> >
> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >Specified standard NTSC-J? What module options did you use? That's
> > the Japanese NTSC standard. Or do you live in Japan?
> >
> > Hans
> >
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