----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Seltzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] No Video pcHDTV 3000 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:10:25 -0800
> > At 10:22 AM -0800 12/30/04, David Highley wrote: > > This is a new system and we have had many issues trying to set up mythv. > > System configuration is: > > Dual Opteron processors > > pcHDTV 3000 - currently connected to cable tv > > Does this work? My understanding is that the HD-3000 currently > gets only over-the-air broadcast HDTV. Support may be coming for > unencrypted digital cable, but I didn't think it was here yet. > > > GeForce 6800 GT video card > > Samsung 243T monitor > > Fedora core 3 > > > > The current issue is no video in mythtv when we try and watch tv, we are > > also not able to exit this mode and end up killing the mythfrontend > > process. We get video, but very poor quality using tvtime. Finally we > > have not been able to configure the monitor run at the 1900x1200 > > resolution. We did see one report of someone getting this to work in > > Fedora core 3 but they did not post the configuration. > > My sense is that the video resolution and TV playback problems are > related. I tried for a bit with FC2 and HD resolutions but never > got an xorg.conf file that worked right. Ended up going back to a > debian-based or KnoppMyth install. > > Can you record a stream through Myth and play it back with mplayer? > > --Wendy > -- -- > Wendy Seltzer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation > Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School > http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/ > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users My guess is they are just using the card as a regular ntsc-bttv tuner card, and not using the HD portion of it. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
