fatmonk
November 20th, 2008, 05:52 AM
I really hope someone can help me with these as I thought I was so close to a fully working system finally.
Last night I followed the instructions here (http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500) and here (http://www.blackberryforums.com/linux-users-corner/97661-enable-disable-config_usb_suspend-s-autosuspend-mode.html) as I was having problems with recordings failing (recorded file missing, but a database entry being made).
I tried a few recordings after making the changes (basically disabling the USB suspend mode on the Nova-T 500, and disabling the IR polling on the same card as I'm going to use the Fusin black built in IR rx) and the recordings worked - multirec included.
(I also disabled active EIT scanning for each of the two tuners on the Nova-T 500 board as advised in the empty recordings reports, and did a dpkg-reconfigure with dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-{kernel-versio}-generic to rebuild the initrd file as advised)
Now I have TWO problems.
The first is that the frame rate of Live TV has dropped to approx 8fps. This was working properly before only only affects Live TV. TV recordings and ripped DVD playback are good (except for the second fault below), but on live TV the video is stuttery.
The second problem is that Myth now seems to think my TV is 4x3.
I know I set this up previously, and there is a 'monitor aspect ratio' settings somewhere but I can't for the life of me find it. This is NOT the same setting as force aspect ratio (in screen 2 or the playback settings), unless I am using that wrong.
Basically, any 16:9 programme is showing letterboxed to 4:3 on Myth. When I VNC into the box the display I get is 4x3 (as I have the resolution set to 1024x768) and the video looks the be in proportion, confirming that Myth is outputting the video scaled for a 4x3 display. This is not how things were before I made the tweaks. When I VNCd in previously the VNC display would be squashed/anamorphic - which is what I would expect.
Where is that settinsg to set the aspect ratio of my display/monitor (I don't remember quite how it was worded), and how can I restore my frame rate on Live TV?
Thanks,
FM
Last night I followed the instructions here (http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500) and here (http://www.blackberryforums.com/linux-users-corner/97661-enable-disable-config_usb_suspend-s-autosuspend-mode.html) as I was having problems with recordings failing (recorded file missing, but a database entry being made).
I tried a few recordings after making the changes (basically disabling the USB suspend mode on the Nova-T 500, and disabling the IR polling on the same card as I'm going to use the Fusin black built in IR rx) and the recordings worked - multirec included.
(I also disabled active EIT scanning for each of the two tuners on the Nova-T 500 board as advised in the empty recordings reports, and did a dpkg-reconfigure with dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-{kernel-versio}-generic to rebuild the initrd file as advised)
Now I have TWO problems.
The first is that the frame rate of Live TV has dropped to approx 8fps. This was working properly before only only affects Live TV. TV recordings and ripped DVD playback are good (except for the second fault below), but on live TV the video is stuttery.
The second problem is that Myth now seems to think my TV is 4x3.
I know I set this up previously, and there is a 'monitor aspect ratio' settings somewhere but I can't for the life of me find it. This is NOT the same setting as force aspect ratio (in screen 2 or the playback settings), unless I am using that wrong.
Basically, any 16:9 programme is showing letterboxed to 4:3 on Myth. When I VNC into the box the display I get is 4x3 (as I have the resolution set to 1024x768) and the video looks the be in proportion, confirming that Myth is outputting the video scaled for a 4x3 display. This is not how things were before I made the tweaks. When I VNCd in previously the VNC display would be squashed/anamorphic - which is what I would expect.
Where is that settinsg to set the aspect ratio of my display/monitor (I don't remember quite how it was worded), and how can I restore my frame rate on Live TV?
Thanks,
FM