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11-24-2004, 04:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
Moskie Pure Chewing Satisfaction Location: can i use bbcode [i]here[/i]?	Watching TV through Linux I've taken on the project of making my own PVR. It's been a hassle, but I've been enjoying myself... so anyway, here's the issue. I'm running Fedora Core 3, and using a ATI TV Wonder VE card. Fedora seems to recognize the TV card ok. However, the channels are offset by one. Channel 7 shows up as channel 8, etc. What would cause that? And I was getting a washed out image as well: However, after trying out a few different TV viewing programs, I stumbled upon TVTime. TVTime has an option called "Finetune current channel", which allows you to "increase" or "decrease" an unnamed value... It doesn't describe what it's doing or what it's changing, but if I "increase" this option to +10, the image gets a lot better: Anyone have an idea as to what it's increasing? Maybe I can try to do what TVTime is doing in other programs as well.... __________________ Greetings and salutations.

11-24-2004, 09:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
bendsley Professional Loafer Location: texas	Well, what program are you wanting to use to make your machine into a DVR? TVTime is just a television viewing program. I recommend MythTV. __________________ "You hear the one about the fella who died, went to the pearly gates? St. Peter let him in. Sees a guy in a suit making a closing argument. Says, "Who's that?" St. Peter says, "Oh, that's God. Thinks he's Denny Crane."

11-25-2004, 05:26 PM

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Rawb

Crazy

Location: Salt Town, UT

It looks like you are set for european channels. It seems to be a popular default and one of the top FAQ's of MythTV

Here's a quote from their faq:

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Channels are off by one

There is no such thing as "Canada Cable"; Canada uses the same frequencies as the United States. "Canada Cable" was a hack that some people used when they would discover that their channels were off-by-one, ie, when tuning to channel 42, they might get channel 41 or 43. This is actually due to the tuner on the video capture device being mis-detected. You must manually specify the tuner type in your /etc/modules.conf. See the video4linux mailing list ( https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/l...deo4linux-list) for more information.

11-25-2004, 09:28 PM	#4 (permalink)
Moskie Pure Chewing Satisfaction Location: can i use bbcode [i]here[/i]?	as it turns out, that finetune setting was slightly adjusting the frequency. i found a similar setting in MythTV as well. I guess I was telling it to look at a frequency 10 MHz higher, or something. And I'm pretty sure I had my programs set to look at the US cable frequencies, so I'm not sure what was actually happening. __________________ Greetings and salutations.