[mythtv-users] tvtime vs ptune.pl

[Tarick Karkache]

Brian,

I had similar issues when setting up my card yesterday. I soon discovered
that the backend was dying because the buffer directory did not exist. Make
sure your buffer directory exists and it is writable by your myth tv user.

Cheers,
Tarick

On 9/23/05, Marius Schrecker <marius at schrecker.org> wrote:
>
>  >I'm still trying to get my PVR-500 working 100%. Right now, I can use
> ptune.pl to >change the channel, and then cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test.mpg,
> and then play that in >mplayer. Works like a charm. However, when I try to
> launch tvtime, I get the following:
> >
> >Running tvtime 0.9.15.
> >Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
> >Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
> >xcommon: No window properties found for EWMH.
> >videoinput: Card failed to allocate capture buffers: Invalid argument
> >
> >On the screen it shows just a blue screen with "no signal" at the top. If
> I try to change >channels, I get the message "cannot open capture device
> /dev/video0." This doesn't >make sense, because I was just able to read
> from /dev/video0! xawtv and mythfrontend >also don't seem able to use the
> tuner, but the combination of ptune.pl and mplayer seem >ok. Anybody have
> any ideas?
>
>   Hi Brian,
>
>  I didn't think TVtime was able to support cards like the PVR-500. You
> might want to try something like xawtv instead.
>
>  Cheers
>
>  Marius
>
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Regards,
Tarick Karkache
tkarkache at gmail.com
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