[mythtv-users] Mythbackend error

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Wed Apr 23 13:53:53 UTC 2003


On Wednesday 23 April 2003 07:06 am, mind7 wrote:
> So far I have follow the install instruction to a tee on a fresh install
> of Slack9.0. When I attempt to run mythbackend I get the following:
>
> Starting up as the master server.
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Television
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite1
> Probed: /dev/video0 - S-Video
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite3
> VIDIOCSPICT: : Invalid argument
> VIDIOCSPICT: : Invalid argument
> VIDIOCSPICT: : Invalid argument
>
>  From what I gather this is part of video4linux. All in all, lost on this
> error, any help I can, I would be grateful.

You'll notice that the error messages in question do not prevent operation of 
mythtv at all, they're just it complaining that it can't set the 
brightness/contrast/color settings.

Isaac



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