[mythtv-users] PVR250 No video and no lirc remote

[Jim Valavanis]

All is WORKING NOW!

Gosh, I'm not so sure what I did.  I was mucking around with the .ivtvrc 
file in myth's home directory...


[defaults]
MSPSleep=2
Frequency=
VideoDevice=/dev/video0
MSPOutput=1
FrequencyTable=ntsc-cable
TunerNum=0
Channel=9
Debug=0
MSPInput=3
SetMSPMatrix=1

I first changed the Debug to 9 to see if I can get some debug messages. 
 Also I set the Channel to 9.  There was nothing there originally.

I'm not so sure if this would matter, but I still am not sure what the 
hell I did to make it work.  All the setting are as I described earlier.

Thanks for the help.  It definitely made this work, as I spent more time 
working on this.

Jim

Jim Valavanis wrote:

> Yes, I have the coax directly into the PVR250 port.
>
> I checked all permissions and they look ok, everything /dev/dsp, 
> /dev/video0, /dev/vbi0, /mythtv (recordings), /cache (cache), all 
> owned my user mythtv.
>
> One other thing about running mplayer.  On occasion, mplayer will not 
> run....
> Here's the message:
> audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
>
> But if I wait long enough it will finally free up and launch.   How 
> can I find out what is using the device?
>
> Jim
>
>
> Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
>
>> On Oct 31, 2003, at 10:47 AM, Jim Valavanis wrote:
>>
>>> I had a feeling something was messed up in the Capture cards or 
>>> Input Connections sections.  Still no luck.  Now, when I select 
>>> "Watch TV", I get a blank screen and then I cannot exit.  I have to 
>>> kill the mythfrontend process in order to exit.  ESC doesn't do 
>>> anything.
>>>
>>> Here are my settings...
>>> Capture card:
>>>    /dev/video0
>>>    /dev/vbi
>>>    /dev/dsp
>>>    Audio Sampling: none
>>
>>
>>
>> All looks fine, I think.
>>
>>>    Default Input: Tuner0  (Is this right?)
>>
>>
>>
>> As long as you are hooking a coax cable directly to the tuner input, 
>> yes.
>>
>>>    Card Type: Standard V4L or MJPEG capture Card  ( I tried other 
>>> types as well but no luck)
>>>
>>> Input Devices:
>>>    Capture Device: /dev/video0
>>>    Input:     Tuner0
>>>    Video Source: comcast
>>>   Anything wrong here??
>>
>>
>>
>> Ah, you're still running 0.11, so no profiles yet. Is that from 
>> within mythtvsetup, or in the frontend? I can't recall anymore what 
>> you can set where... It isn't a standard vl4 or mjpeg card though, it 
>> is a hardware mpeg2 card.
>>
>> Also, check for proper permissions on the directories you use for 
>> your live TV buffer and recordings, as well as /dev/video0 and 
>> /dev/dsp (and make sure nothing else is using /dev/dsp).
>>
>> --Jarod
>>
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