On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:48:06 +1200 (NZST) Jamie Dobbs wrote: > >> I for one was thoroughly impressed with Nick's MythTV presentation > >> last night. > > > > Was that the presentation, the presented software, or both? ;-))) > > (I'd say both.) > > > > I only wish I could have been there, but unfortunately I live in > Wellington (at the moment). > I'm in the process of trying to get a MythTV box set up and am running > into a few problems: > > 1/ With the Pinnacle PCTV Stereo (now saa7134 based) I can get picture but > no sound in Xawtv, kdetv etc. but nothing at all in MythTV. ** THIS IS MY > MAIN PROBLEM, after all what use is TV without sound? **
This is a common problem, and a bit chip dependent. What modules are loaded? There is a snd-bttv or something that I believe you may need. In other situations there is a need to have a cable going from your capture card to the sound card? (although the fact that it works in windows may rule that out) > (As an aside in Windows I do get sound from the card with no issues, and I > have tried all I can think of with regard to levels, lines and inputs > under Linux but there is obviously something I am missing) > > 2/ I've tried various distros and had hoped to use the Fedora Core 3 guide > at http://wilsonet.com but have discovered that the ATrpms now muck up > Fedora nicely. After installing Axel Thimm's ATrpms-kickstart and doing an > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and rebooting to install the new > kernel none of the package management software, RPM, APT or YUM work. > > 3/ I'd prefer to use Gentoo but haven't been able to find anything really > useful that details the correct process to go through. I think I saw > something a few months ago that was a step by step guide but if I recall > correctly in was for one of the Haupauge cards and I didn't save the URL. > That might not be a lot of use anyway given that I don't have the Haupauge > card. these steps basically: emerge mythtv rc-update add mythbackend default /etc/init.d/mythbackend start mythsetup mythfrontend > > Can anyone point me to some good step by step instructions, for _any_ > distro to get me up and running with the PCTV Stereo and using my ATI > cards TV out I'd really appreciate it. > > Cheers > > Jamie > > -- Nick Rout
