[mythtv-users] Mythtv 0.17, Fedora Core 3

[Jarod Wilson]

On Saturday 05 March 2005 06:06, Charles Mills wrote:
> Hi all,
>      I've been going round and round with this issue and am out of
> ideas.  I am trying to get MythTV to work with a Hauppauge WinTV
> PVR-350, Fedora Core 3, 2.6.10-1.766_FC3.  The IVTV drivers appear
> fine, I can get a video signal in and play it out into a TV just fine
> and change channels with the ptune-ui.pl module.

You've got ivtv working just fine then, but...

>      I'm having a little trouble getting MythTV to start up.  I get it
> running and when I select "watch tv", I get a blank screen.  When I
> try to record a show, it appears to attempt to do so but I get the
> following in the mythbackend.log:
[...]
> 2005-03-03 21:35:51.263 Unknown video codec
> 2005-03-03 21:35:51.267 Please go into the TV Settings, Recording Profiles
> and 2005-03-03 21:35:51.270 setup the four 'Software Encoders' profiles.
> 2005-03-03 21:35:51.272 Assuming RTjpeg for now.
> 2005-03-03 21:35:51.275 NVR: Error, unknown audio codec
> 2005-03-03 21:35:51.321 NVR: Won't work with the streaming interface,
> falling back

The above errors lead me to believe maybe you configured your card incorrectly 
in setup, and specified it as a dumb v4l device instead of a PVR-x50 
w/hardware encoder. You shouldn't see RTjpeg in your logs, only mpeg2.

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