[mythtv-users] Issue with remote frontends. Will not play video

[David Brieck Jr.]

Joshua Pollak wrote:
> 
> On Jan 21, 2004, at 3:29 PM, mythtv at thehowertons.net wrote:
> 
>>> All--
>>>
>>> My last step in setting up MythTV!:
>>>
>>> My remote frontends will not play any video. I get the following output:
>>>
>>> 2004-01-18 23:38:54 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
>>> 2004-01-18 23:38:58 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.5.3:6543 (try
>>> 1 of 5)
>>> 2004-01-18 23:38:59 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
>>> QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
>>> 2004-01-18 23:38:59 Error writing stringlist
>>
>>
>>
>> I am having the exact same error.  Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> 
> I seem to get this on my local frontend as well.
> 
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The "Error writing stringlist" is usually caused by the permissions on 
/dev/video* or /dev/v4l/video*. It's basically saying it can't write to 
the capture card to change the channel.