MythTV Update
MythTVIt has been a while since I have posted any news on my MythTV journey. The truth of the matter is that I ran in to a couple problems after working so long getting it all together that I decided to take a break from MythTV'ing.
Problems:
- Display looks cruddy, I am using an Nvidia card and an S-Video out. There is a black border around the entire picture, and it is somewhat grainy.
- Channel surfing would only take me through the network channels (4-13 ish).
I decided I would take 15 minutes yesterday and do a little more work (baby steps!) and I had a general idea what #2 might be caused by. You know how, on some TV's, you have to select which type of source your TV is utilizing. (Antenna, Cable, etc). Well I never saw a mention of this in the HOW TO's for setting up MythTV with a PVR 150. It turns out this was the case for my set up as well.
Fix for #2:
- Exit out of MythTV and open up a terminal.
- Run mythtv-setup
- Step through the screens for setup until you see the section related to TV formats (like NTSC, PAL, etc). On that screen you will see the choice to change it from us-broad, us-cable. I made that change, "next"'d out of there and had to restart MythTV for it to work.
AHHH glorious cable channels (and with my on-screen display even working right)!
The fix for #1 is in the pipes, I ultimately want to run DVI-HDMI cable from the MythTV machine to my television so I am going to find one of those cables before I spend too much time troubleshooting the S-VIDEO connection.
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