2:55 p.m.
I'm having problems with Tvtime, and would like to take a screen shot of what
Tvtime is displaying, but can't remember the incantation to take the
screenshot.
This is on FC2 using KDE.
Nigel.
3:06 p.m.
Hi Nigel,
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 20:55, Nigel Henry wrote:
I'm having problems with Tvtime, and would like to take a screen
shot of
what Tvtime is displaying, but can't remember the incantation to take the
screenshot.
This is on FC2 using KDE.
Have you tried KSnapshot, assuming it is in FC2's KDE
HTH
Colin
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3:41 p.m.
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 22:06, Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
Hi Nigel,
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 20:55, Nigel Henry wrote:
> I'm having problems with Tvtime, and would like to take a screen shot of
> what Tvtime is displaying, but can't remember the incantation to take the
> screenshot.
>
> This is on FC2 using KDE.
Have you tried KSnapshot, assuming it is in FC2's KDE
HTH
Colin
Hi Colin. Thanks for that. it takes a snapshot ok, but the snapshot doesn't
look like what I am seeing on the screen.
Tvtime usually has a blue screen, and this is what the snapshot shows, but
what I am seeing on the screen, is a screen composed of bluey green and pink
horizontal lines, and probably the bottom 15% of the screen is a green pixel
soup. I've no idea what I've done to screw up Tvtime. Removing it and
reinstalling it just brings up the same mess.
I'm beginning to think that as Win XP was the original preinstalled OS on this
this machine, that it has jinxed it, so that I can only watch TV on it using
XP.lol
You've gotta just laugh sometimes, otherwise you'll go nuts.
Nigel.
4:03 p.m.
Nigel Henry wrote:
Hi Colin. Thanks for that. it takes a snapshot ok, but the snapshot doesn't
look like what I am seeing on the screen.
Tvtime usually has a blue screen, and this is what the snapshot shows, but
what I am seeing on the screen, is a screen composed of bluey green and pink
horizontal lines, and probably the bottom 15% of the screen is a green pixel
soup. I've no idea what I've done to screw up Tvtime. Removing it and
reinstalling it just brings up the same mess.
That sounds like your monitor may not be able to track some
resolution change that's taking place.
Mike
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4:28 p.m.
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 23:03, Mike McCarty wrote:
Nigel Henry wrote:
> Hi Colin. Thanks for that. it takes a snapshot ok, but the snapshot
> doesn't look like what I am seeing on the screen.
>
> Tvtime usually has a blue screen, and this is what the snapshot shows,
> but what I am seeing on the screen, is a screen composed of bluey green
> and pink horizontal lines, and probably the bottom 15% of the screen is a
> green pixel soup. I've no idea what I've done to screw up Tvtime.
> Removing it and reinstalling it just brings up the same mess.
That sounds like your monitor may not be able to track some
resolution change that's taking place.
Mike
Hi Mike. That's interesting. I've just worked my way down from my default of
1024x768, to 800x600, and 640x480, and got some interesting psychedelic stuff
displayed, then went the other way to 1152x864, which has also changed the
refresh rate from 85HZ to 75HZ, and have now got Tvtime showing me the blue
screen which I'm used to. Still no signal, but what the hell.
Now to find out how to get it working again with the default 1024x768
resolution, which it was originally working with.
Thanks for the help.
Nigel.
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5:06 p.m.
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 23:28, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 23:03, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> > Hi Colin. Thanks for that. it takes a snapshot ok, but the snapshot
> > doesn't look like what I am seeing on the screen.
> >
> > Tvtime usually has a blue screen, and this is what the snapshot shows,
> > but what I am seeing on the screen, is a screen composed of bluey green
> > and pink horizontal lines, and probably the bottom 15% of the screen is
> > a green pixel soup. I've no idea what I've done to screw up Tvtime.
> > Removing it and reinstalling it just brings up the same mess.
>
> That sounds like your monitor may not be able to track some
> resolution change that's taking place.
>
> Mike
Hi Mike. That's interesting. I've just worked my way down from my default
of 1024x768, to 800x600, and 640x480, and got some interesting psychedelic
stuff displayed, then went the other way to 1152x864, which has also
changed the refresh rate from 85HZ to 75HZ, and have now got Tvtime showing
me the blue screen which I'm used to. Still no signal, but what the hell.
Now to find out how to get it working again with the default 1024x768
resolution, which it was originally working with.
Thanks for the help.
Nigel.
A little update is that Tvtime is displaying ok with my original resolution of
1024x768, still no pictures from the TV, and since I've been messing with the
resolutions all my desktop icons are all over the show. I think there must be
at least 20 stacked up on top of one another in the bottom left hand corner.
All makes life working with computers interesting, or is that frustrating, or
just darned annoying at times. Time for another beer me thinks.
Nigel.
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> You have found the bank of Larn.
> I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.
> I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!
5:26 p.m.
Nigel Henry wrote:
A little update is that Tvtime is displaying ok with my original resolution of
1024x768, still no pictures from the TV, and since I've been messing with the
resolutions all my desktop icons are all over the show. I think there must be
at least 20 stacked up on top of one another in the bottom left hand corner.
Well, my guess was probably correct. Your monitor was getting confused
somehow.
All makes life working with computers interesting, or is that
frustrating, or
just darned annoying at times. Time for another beer me thinks.
Yeah. We've all been there in one way or another. Maybe wait until
tomorrow to tackle it again.
Mike
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7:15 p.m.
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:41:58 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 22:06, Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
> Hi Nigel,
>
> On Tuesday 19 September 2006 20:55, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > I'm having problems with Tvtime, and would like to take a screen shot of
> > what Tvtime is displaying, but can't remember the incantation to take the
> > screenshot.
> >
> > This is on FC2 using KDE.
>
> Have you tried KSnapshot, assuming it is in FC2's KDE
>
> HTH
>
> Colin
Hi Colin. Thanks for that. it takes a snapshot ok, but the snapshot doesn't
look like what I am seeing on the screen.
Tvtime usually has a blue screen, and this is what the snapshot shows, but
what I am seeing on the screen, is a screen composed of bluey green and pink
horizontal lines, and probably the bottom 15% of the screen is a green pixel
soup. I've no idea what I've done to screw up Tvtime. Removing it and
reinstalling it just brings up the same mess.
If you remove and reinstall tvtime, you may want to remove/rename
the .tvtime from your home directory to make it forget all the
old settings, and start anew.
Also, you can take a screenshot directly from tvtime by pressing s
(save).
12:20 p.m.
On Thursday 21 September 2006 02:15, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:41:58 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 September 2006 22:06, Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
>> Hi Nigel,
>>
>> On Tuesday 19 September 2006 20:55, Nigel Henry wrote:
>> > I'm having problems with Tvtime, and would like to take a screen shot
>> > of what Tvtime is displaying, but can't remember the incantation to
>> > take the screenshot.
>> >
>> > This is on FC2 using KDE.
>>
>> Have you tried KSnapshot, assuming it is in FC2's KDE
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Colin
>
> Hi Colin. Thanks for that. it takes a snapshot ok, but the snapshot
> doesn't look like what I am seeing on the screen.
>
> Tvtime usually has a blue screen, and this is what the snapshot shows,
> but what I am seeing on the screen, is a screen composed of bluey green
> and pink horizontal lines, and probably the bottom 15% of the screen is a
> green pixel soup. I've no idea what I've done to screw up Tvtime.
> Removing it and reinstalling it just brings up the same mess.
If you remove and reinstall tvtime, you may want to remove/rename
the .tvtime from your home directory to make it forget all the
old settings, and start anew.
Hi. Sorry for the delay. I've been Googling to try and sort out these
problems.
Bttv had loaded the wrong tuner type (One for NTSC type=2) initially, but I
hadn't realised it at the time. Tvtime when I installed it had the usual blue
screen showing no signal. I ran the channel scan tool, but it picked up
nothing, obviously because the wrong tuner type was installed. I then start
to play the piano on the menu, trying different options as if they are going
out of fashion. Now Tvtime on this FC2 install appears to be totally screwed
up, and I have this strange pink, and bluey green horizontal overlay on the
screen. No access to the menu or anything. If I take a screenshot, it's saved
as a blue screen, but that's not what I'm seeing.
I changed the resolution to a higher one, and it appeared to fix the problem,
then I moved the resolution back to the original 1024x768 one, and it was
still allright, but after rebooting I was back to the weirdo display, and yet
when I first installed tvtime it was ok with the 1024x768 resolution, and
using another instance of FC2 on the same machine, and after making sure that
the tuner type was 38, tvtime works ok on that install.
It would appear that while I was seriously messing with menu settings on
tvtime, that changes have been made somewhere else other than on tvtimes
config. I say this based on observations. I remove tvtime, making sure that
all files are removed, but when reinstalling it I get the same weirdo
display.
What changes could tvtime have made to other files on the system? I tried
running depmod -a as root, and it fixed the tvtime problem, but after
rebooting the same old problem was back, and running depmod -a again, now
does nothing. My messing with tvtimes menu settings must have made changes
somewhere else, but I'm darned if I know where to look.
I do have some TV on the FC2 install where tvtime is screwed up, using
xawdecode, but no sound. On the other FC2 on the same machine I have tvtime,
and xawdecode giving me sound. At least on the 3 french channels, and the 2
belgian ones, but not for the UK ones.
Reluctantly using XP on the same machine as a benchmark, the images are good
on all channels (France, Belgium, and UK) , and sound is ok on all of them.
All a bit puzzling.
Nigel.
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