[ivtv-users] hvr-1600 update

[Karol Marek Zapolski]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Andy Walls <awalls at radix.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 19:39 -0800, Kenneth Long wrote:
> > I'm experiencing a somewhat weird phenomena.
> > The ATSC tuner seems to work fine with mplayer from the command line.
> > I do not see this issue with the command line launch of mplayer.
> >
> > I tuned mythtv backend and it also seems to work..
> > but the display is "double". Two videos are displayed, one on top of
> > the other. I have a wide screen monitor (1900x1200) and on one
> > channel, with lower resolution, it would flicker back and forth
> > between a single display and double display.
> >
> > I only have a hvr-1600 so I can not test it any further regarding the
> card.
> > Should I direct this to myth mailing group? or something more to test for
> this group?
>
> After MythTV goes funny on a digital capture try this:
>
> 1. stop the mythbackend
>
> 2. test the same digital channel with mplayer.  If it doesn't play OK,
> maybe mythtv did some funny driver configuration (I doubt it).
>
> 3. use mplayer to playback the video files MythTV just recorded (my
> MythTV setup dumps them under /var/video
>
>
> I suspect you have a MythTV ATSC/MPEG2 decoding problem.
>
> BTW, to get 1080i to display on my 1024x768 monitor, I always end up
> doing something like this with mplayer:
>
> $ mplayer dvb://WFOO-DT -cache 8192 -vf scale=960:540
>
> Which scales the 1920x1080 down to 1/4 the original size in software.
>
>
> Regards,
> Andy
>
> > thanks
>
>
Andy,

Little OT but I can grant access to box with HVR1600/1250/1800 (other cards
as well) in NY / US for developing / testing with digital antenna connected
and/or analog feed if you interested ;-)

Regards
Karol Zapolski
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