When I view live tv in Myth with the PVR-150 (tuner type 50, NTSC) -- the picture appears "Zoomed In" like it is displaying the wrong aspect ratio (16:9 instead of 4:3) I have hit W repeatedly to see if this changes to the right aspect, but it appears my problem lies elsewhere. I am recording from the first tuner port. I get crystal clear audio, but the video has this problem and a static band at the top that I am hoping will clear up with the aspect fix.
Has anyone experienced this problem before with any of the PVR cards from Hauppauge?
Have I not fully configured the card, perhaps?
ivtvctl shows this as my current settings:
Input width=720
Input height=480

Output width=480
Output height=480

Hardware:
SiS chipset athlon motherboard
1.6GHz processor
10/100 Network card
NVidia GeForce4MX w/ TV out (connected to the TV)
Hauppauge PVR-150 Non-MCE
512MB PC2100

Any help is greatly appreciated!
-Nick

OK. I've realized that I am perhaps too dumb to run MythTV.

This can be fixed by going into Setup->setup->TV->Recording Profiles
and changing the horizontal res to 720 on "Default" and "LiveTV"

Well, I hope this helps someone one day.

Now my only problem is that I have this weird bar of static at the top of the capture/live TV.
When I do a cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg and watch it, it is present on there as well.
Do I perhaps have the wrong tuner type (50), or is this card just bad? Or is this yet another stupid moment?
-Nick

It might be some of the VBI data. What version of ivtv are you using?

-brendan

Brendan --
Thank you for the reply! I will investigate...
To answer your question, I am using IVTV 0.2.0rc3j
Is this a known issue?
Thanks,
-Nick

I dunno. There's been some discussion on the various 0.3.4[a-z]/0.3.5[a-m] releases about how much of the VBI should be visible. Since the 0.2.0rc3j contains some backported stuff, it may be the case that similar issues exist.

Does the nvidia-setup (nvidia-settings?) allow control of overscan on the tv-out? Perhaps you can increase it a bit?

-brendan

I happen to know that it does, since that's how I set mine now.

- Rip out any overscan specs in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

- Use Alt-X to get an xterm, as mythtv (not root!) run nvidia-settings, set your overscan and any other parameters you want...

- Add a line like this to your /home/mythtv/.fluxbox/apps before it starts KnoppMyth-run:

tjc! Wow! Thank you! That worked quite well. I am still not certain about what that static line is, but now at least it is not visible.
Thanks again!
-Nick

You can also use it to tune up your TV picture, by adjusting gamma, brightness, color, hue, saturation, ... I''ve found gamma particularly helpful for those problems where the light colors all burn to white and/or the dark colors all look black. Being able to flip between the TV's internal tuner and the MythTV "live" playback gives you a good reference point.