[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup "failed to open" pcHDTV-5500 (analog V4L capture card)

[Saul A. Peebsen]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:47:12 -0500
"Darrel Mattox" <dmattox at schaferhsv.com> wrote:

> 
> I have installed mythtv 0.25 from rpmFusion on a clean install of
> Fedora 17.  I updated all Fedora packages before installing mythtv.
> I start mythtv-setup to configure the backend and I get a "failed to
> open" error message when configuring the analog tuner of the
> pcHDTV-5500 card. The analog tuner of the pcHDTV-5500 card should be
> of type "analog V4L capture card"?  I have two identical cards and I
> get the same error message on both cards. 

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> This is a clear case of if it's not broken don't fix it.  The tuners
> were working perfectly using Fedora 15 and mythtv 0.25.

I'm very surprised pcHDTV-5500 analog worked for you with 0.25. I have
one of these, it [analog] stopped working for me after upgrading to
0.23. OTOH I must say pcHDTV-5500 analog is very poor compared to MPEG
cards.

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Cheers, Saul