On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 13:04 -0800, G S wrote: > I don't quite understand how you have your PVR-350 hooked up to your > tv. I'm assuming you're using a video out from your video card to the > TV screen. If this is so, I'm not sure exactly how you would set that > up. My recommendation is to just run xorg off the PVR-350's S-video > out. That's the way I have mine setup and there's instructions for it > in the Fedora Mythtv guide.
So I shouldn't use the red, white and yellow cables and just use the S-video adapter? Or should I use the S-video adapter in addition to the red, white and yellow cables? > Things to make sure of if you set it up this way: > > 1. Be sure you append "vga=791" to the end of kernel /vmz lines in > your grub.conf before you try to run x on your s-video out. This step > is easily missed in the Fedora guide as it's not in one of the grey > code boxes. It's located near the center of the page in the guide. > > 2. In your mythtv setup, you want to set your card to mpeg2 encoder > compatible or something like that. I don't have the setup open in > front of me but the default setting is not correct for the PVR-350. > Also, you do want to use Tuner 0. This selects the tuner as the input > stream. > > 3. In the mythtv frontend options, be sure to enable the PVR-350's TV > out/mpeg encoder. It's located in the TV settings > playback category. > The options line below that should read /dev/video16 > > 4. DO NOT rebuild your system's ramdisk as stated in the Fedora guide. > Some stuff has changed around since the last update to the guide. If > you try to rebuild the ramdisk so the driver loads earlier your system > won't boot up. So just skip this step until the guide has been updated > again. Yeah, I did all of that. I know about the ramdisk, because I had to rebuild a default one when I found out the one they tell you to make doesn't work. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
