Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#241 closed enhancement (duplicate)
PAL-I problem & unpleasant fix
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Isaac Richards | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | unknown |
| Component: | mythtv | Version: | 0.18.1 |
| Severity: | medium | Keywords: | PAL-I TV norm audio static |
| Cc: | Ticket locked: | no |
Description
I filed this in bugzilla already but bugzilla seems to have been removed so I just refile it here for reference in case someone else comes across the same problem.
MythTV does not allow the specification of PAL-I as the TV norm instead it only allows the user to select PAL which I believe translates to v4l2_STD_PAL (for the v4l2 API). At least for the Conexant based Hauppauge WinTV PCI FM card this means that the TV norm gets set to PAL-BG when MythTV tunes for the card for the first time. In PAL-I countries like the UK this results in recording a perfect picture with static noise audio.
The workaround for the time being is to recompile the cx88xx-video.c source as follows (this is copied from Andrew Wilkinson's post to the v4l mailing list): <quote> In cx88-video.c change (it's about line 1,389) from cx88_set_tvnorm(dev->core,&tvnorms[i]); to cx88_set_tvnorm(dev->core,&tvnorms[4]);
Then recompile, install and load the cx8800 and cx88xx modules.
This ignores the tv norm the application is using and forces it to use PAL_I. Seeing as I doubt I'll ever be using my computer somewhere that isn't PAL_I this is a reasonable thing to do.
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Ideally, it would be great if MythTV could offer an option to specify which PAL norm should be used for V4L2_STD_PAL either as a start-up parameter or a config option somewhere.
Dupe of #228.