[mythtv-users] Can't get video data from capture card

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Wed Jul 7 07:14:04 EDT 2004


On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:41:49AM +0100, Mark Howells wrote:
> When I run mythfrontend and select watch TV I just see a black screen for 15 seconds before the frontend menu reappears.  There's no audio during that time. It seems from the backend output that the backend cannot read the videostream data from the card

Did you specify the correct PIDs? In my log I see
"DVB#0 Adding pid ..." messages which weren't in the log extract you
provided, though that could be the extra logging I enabled.

Is the frontend locked when Myth tunes it? You can run 'femon' to
passively monitor while Myth is running.

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Nice..

Hamish
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