[mythtv-users] PVR-250 Error, no inputs

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Thu Mar 30 16:15:04 UTC 2006


On 30/03/06, Lane <lane at joeandlane.com> wrote:
> I've got MythTV 0.17 set up on FBSD6.1 and it does everything ... but work.
>
> I can connect to the database, I can edit channels, I can schedule recordings,
> and probably do much more stuff that I don't even know.
>
> But I can't watch TV and I can't playback a recording.
>
> To be clear, I can *schedule* a recording, but it won't actually *record*
> anyting.  Instead X crashes.
>
> I'm using the PVR250.  When I type:
>
> cat /dev/cxm0>filename.mpg
>
> a proper .mpeg file is created, with sound.
>
> Here's what happens when I start mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv.log
>
> 2006-03-30 07:13:58.856 ChannelBase: Could not find input: ERROR, No inputs
> found on card when setting channel 3
>
> 2006-03-30 07:13:58.901 mythbackend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2006-03-30 07:13:58.905 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2006-03-30 07:14:00.931 Reschedule requested for id -1.
> 2006-03-30 07:14:01.773 Scheduled 47 items in 0.8 = 0.04 match + 0.80 place
> 2006-03-30 07:14:01.799 Seem to be woken up by USER
>
> And when I run mythsetup, Capture Cards, Select MPEG-2 Encoder
> (PVR250,PVR350), I get "Error, No Inputs Found" on the "Default Input"
> section.

What inputs does ivtvctl think you have? (And is the /dev/cxm0 device
BSD specific?) Maybe MythTV setup is looking for a /dev/video0 device
and not finding one, does not fully configure the capture card?

Nick


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