[mythtv-users] Blank Screen PVR-150 and LiveTV

[Brad Dorner]

Try looking at the file permissions on /dev/video0. Something on my
system keeps changing my permissions. The result is a blank screen while
I try to view live tv. 

Brad

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 16:54 -0400, Josh Boggis wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/24/05, Hugues Belanger <hbelanger at look.ca> wrote: 
>         Hey All,
>         
>         Well I've always been a big fan of MythTV, but I've yet to get
>         it working properly...! 
>         
>         I've tried two different capture cards and I get the same
>         problem now I figure it must be something I just don't
>         understand this is why I'm begging for help:
>         
>         Hardware:
>         
>         MediaReady 5000
>         Via 1G CPU
>         VIA S3 Unichrome w/tvOut 
>         PVR 150
>         
>         Software:
>         
>         Ubuntu 5.04
>         ivtv 0.38
>         mythtb 0.18.1
>         
>         Here's what I know:
>         
>         ivtv works, mplayer /dev/outputs video and ptune.pl allows me
>         to change channels. Not sure about the sound yet I have got
>         that far. 
>         I can play movies with mythvideo.
>         
>         I configure mythtv-setup with the following
>         
>         -capture card v4l
>         
>         /dev/video0
>         /dev/dsp
>         /dev/vbi0
>         tuner 0
>         
>         - Configured Video Source starchoice (zapt2it) 
>         
>         - Configured input Connnection
>         /dev/video0 --> Tuner0
>         
>         When I start Livetv I just get a blanck screen with the
>         following in my mythbackend.log:
>  
>  
> I just setup MythTV this weekend with my PVR-150.  For capture card I
> used the MPEG-2, not v4l.  Works for me!
>  
> 
>  
> 
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