[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Strangeness
Arpotu
arpotu at apathynews.com
Fri May 2 03:36:38 UTC 2008
> 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
Nope, X display wouldn't work properly if I were (without some mods). I'm
catting the test.mpg (and testing mplayer) as my regular user id.
I'm certain that if I can solve the tvtime problem, it will also solve the
MythTV problem (and vice versa).. maybe I need to strace it o.O ...
Arpotu
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