[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Strangeness

[John Drescher]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Arpotu <arpotu at apathynews.com> wrote:
> All,
>
>  I have run MythTV 0.21 on my new Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop for about a week now,
>  while I waited for my PVR-350 to arrive.  Well, it came in today, I hooked
>  it up, and after a few gyrations it is working - kind of.
>
>  I can use "mplayer /dev/video0" to display the video, but nothing else
>  works with it - MythTV, tvtime, etc, etc... are a no-go.  I can even do
>  the "cat /dev/video0 > blah.mpg", and I get a playable mpeg.
>
>  tvtime complains with:
>
>  ivtv: invalid argument
>  Cannot open capture device /dev/video0
>
>  ...but I believe ivtv is working properly since I can "cat to an mpeg"
>  without errors.
>
>  When I click "Watch TV", the MythTV menus just "blip" for second then it
>  returns to the menu.
>
>  Ideas?  Surely someone has seen this before.
>
Permissions on the device node? Are you testing with mplayer as root?

John