Daniel L. Appleget wrote:

   I have an ATI TV Wonder VE for my capture card.  The tuning seems to be
way off i.e. if I set it to channel 22 I see channel 20.  I do have the
setting right for the tuning types NTSC and USCable.  I also get the same
results from Xawtv.  I can use the fine-tune in Xawtv to get the picture
stronger but it is way off like two whole channels.  I am thinking that the
used tuner card I have is bad but I wanted to ask since I have no experience
with TV capture or MythTV. I have the current build of KnoppMyth (5A10) and
a P3 733 with 512Mb ram.



The problem is that bt878 and tuner are picking the wrong tuner. You will have to use the tuner= or card= kernel parameters for that card. After that it will go into the correct tuning automatically. Mandrake has a control panel for that. Otherwise, its kind of tricky because they changed the parameters recently. Try
modprobe tuner type=2
modprobe bttv gbuffers=4


See how that works. Otherwise you need to figure out what parameters are right. If it tells you to use card=, I think its a card=64.

Another unrelated easy question I had for the experienced. Do I need a
faster video card for live TV, if I run the front end and back end on the
same box? Do I need a more powerful capture card for live TV, if I run the
front end and back end on the same box? Because Live TV is very choppy.


Use gkrellm to see what cpu % you are using when just recording. See what % it is when you are watching TV (in a window). If the % jumps, your display is probably too dependent on the cpu. Make sure you are using an accelerated driver for your graphics card.

-Eric Hattemer


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