[mythtv-users] N220GT nVidia Drivers

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday, October 13, 2010 04:57:47 pm Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > #5 means in Myth setup, he doesn't mean attaching an RF cable to the
> > input
> > 
> > :-)
> 
> No, I mean attach cables.  The mythtv part of this is all simple as well,
> and is well documented.
> 
> > > 6) use it.  /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 (or as reported in dmesg)
> > 
> > #6 may or may not be true, it will be if no other video devices are in
> > the system, and the PVR-500 is the first one
> > configured in Myth.
> 
> what part of "as reported in dmesg" did you miss?  And the order they are
> configured in Myth doesn't matter.  It's how the kernel instantiated them.
> 
> > Many systems have web cams or the like these days, so be careful of
> > absolutes :-)
> 
> I didn't give absolutes :)

Mea culpa, I did miss that "or as reported in dmesg", I just wanted to preclude anyone assuming what the device numbers 
would be.

As for attaching, I have found that attaching sources to capture device inputs is the thing that seems to confuse new Myth 
users the most, at least the ones I have tried to help out have found it so.