[mythtv-users] Unable to initialize video
stephen
mythmail at nb.sympatico.ca
Wed Mar 2 02:08:33 UTC 2005
Kirk Patton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I upgraded my mythtv setup to 0.17 today, and now
> things are broken. :-(
>
> I ran "mythfrontend -v all" and there appears to be an
> error.
>
> 2005-02-22 11:24:08.384 Decoder not alive, and trying
> to play..
>
> In the gui, I get the error "Unable to initialize
> video".
> This happens for both live tv and pre-recorded tv.
>
> I was wondering if someone had any suggestion on how
> to identify the problem or correct it.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Kirk
>
> Log files attached
Hi Kirk,
I had the same problem, and it ended up being a fairly simple fix (for me).
I had .17 working over the tv-out of a pvr350 for about a week, then I
started getting "Unable to initialize video" errors every time I tried
to watch livetv or a previous recording. I saw the logs were
complaining about permissions on the /dev/fb0 device, but they looked
fine (the first couple of times I checked). The weird thing was, I
could still see the gui and watch videos and DVDs (with mplayer/xine),
so I thought that permissions weren't the problem. Turns out the
/dev/fb0 device was a symlink to /dev/fb/0 which only allowed access to
root, not the mythtv user. Changing permissions on /dev/fb/0 fixed
things for me. (I'm running gentoo linux with a 2.6.10 kernel.)
Hope that helps,
Stephen
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