[mythtv-users] freeze when switch to record

Al McIntosh junkmail at allanmcintosh.com
Wed Jan 4 15:58:35 UTC 2006


Sounds like the either of the following will fix your issue.

mkdir -p /var/lib/mythtv/blahblah...

Did you enter a location in myth setup where recorded shows to end up on 
your filesystem?
 

Cyber Source wrote:

> Hello All,
>  I have this EXTREMELY annoying problem. I have an Avermedia M179 card 
> using the ivtv modules. I can record fine if I do a "cat /dev/video0 > 
> /tmp/somevid.mpg" but when I try to record in Myth the moment it 
> starts to record the screen goes with all straight vertical lines and 
> no sound. If I start the mythfronted from terminal, I can see that it 
> is bitching about invalid file handle when opening 
> /var/lib/mythtv/blahblah... and the name of the file is really long. 
> Any ideas on this one?? TIA!




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