[Sussex] Myth TV so ... now we can chat ...

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Sat Feb 26 21:43:46 UTC 2005


Nik et al

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:05:08PM +0000, Steve Dobson wrote:
> Nik, and anyone else trying MythTV using a PVR-350
> 
> I have colour working via:
>   dd of=/dev/video16 if=/dev/video0 bs=16k
 
<snip>

> # ivtvctl -U
> ioctl: VIDIOC_G_STD
> Standard = 0x000000ff
> 
> # ivtvctl -P
> ioctl: VIDIOC_G_INPUT
> Input = 6
> 
> Hope this helps

After a cold or a warm boot I found that I had lost colour just doing:

  # ivtvctl -u -xff
  # ivtvctl -p 6

It wasn't that there wan't any colour, but it was colour challenged.
However cycling thought "ivtvctl -p 7" and back to "ivtvctl -p 6" 
fixed it while the dd was running.

Steve




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