On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Andy Walls <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 19:39 -0800, Kenneth Long wrote: > > I'm experiencing a somewhat weird phenomena. > > The ATSC tuner seems to work fine with mplayer from the command line. > > I do not see this issue with the command line launch of mplayer. > > > > I tuned mythtv backend and it also seems to work.. > > but the display is "double". Two videos are displayed, one on top of > > the other. I have a wide screen monitor (1900x1200) and on one > > channel, with lower resolution, it would flicker back and forth > > between a single display and double display. > > > > I only have a hvr-1600 so I can not test it any further regarding the > card. > > Should I direct this to myth mailing group? or something more to test for > this group? > > After MythTV goes funny on a digital capture try this: > > 1. stop the mythbackend > > 2. test the same digital channel with mplayer. If it doesn't play OK, > maybe mythtv did some funny driver configuration (I doubt it). > > 3. use mplayer to playback the video files MythTV just recorded (my > MythTV setup dumps them under /var/video > > > I suspect you have a MythTV ATSC/MPEG2 decoding problem. > > BTW, to get 1080i to display on my 1024x768 monitor, I always end up > doing something like this with mplayer: > > $ mplayer dvb://WFOO-DT -cache 8192 -vf scale=960:540 > > Which scales the 1920x1080 down to 1/4 the original size in software. > > > Regards, > Andy > > > thanks > > Andy,
Little OT but I can grant access to box with HVR1600/1250/1800 (other cards as well) in NY / US for developing / testing with digital antenna connected and/or analog feed if you interested ;-) Regards Karol Zapolski
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