[mythtv-users] Black Video on Watch TV

[Mark Edwards]

> Myth .11
> PVR 250
> Redhat 9.0
>
> Launching Watch TV I get a blank screen that is unresponive to any of the
> conntrols defined in keys.txt including <ctl><esc>.
>
> I can capture video with cat /dev/video0 and display with mplayer no sound
> at the moment but I dont believe that would cause my problem.

no sound is your problem, it will cause these symptoms.
run the backend from a terminal and watch it tell you it can't open
/dev/dsp.