[mythtv-users] Totally lost ...

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/10/2010 07:33 PM, Casey K wrote:
> Hi everybody. Well I think MythTV looks really kewl and I would love 
> to use it only I can't get it to work and I'm totally lost. Everything 
> I read on message boards is just getting me more confused. Can anybody 
> help me - like walk me through how to get it working?
>
> It seems like it's so close to working but when I go to "Watch Live 
> TV" all I get is a kind of test pattern with a "1" in the middle of 
> the screen and then after about 5 seconds it puts me back at the menu.
>
> Here's the messages from mythbackend when I start that:
>
> [casey at localhost ~]$ mythbackend
...
> 2010-03-10 16:16:48.886 Channel(/dev/video0) Error: 
> GetCurrentChannelNum(): Failed to find Channel
> 2010-03-10 16:16:48.887 Channel(/dev/video0)::TuneTo(): Error, failed 
> to find channel.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034

Also, if you're using a V4L analog framegrabber (i.e. not a PVR-150/500 
hardware encoder and not a digital capture card and not firewire...), 
you can get this issue if you have an invalid Audio Device defined for 
the card (the audio /input/ device defined in mythtv-setup for the 
capture card not the audio output device defined in mythfrontend settings).

Mike