[mythtv-users] Can't get mythtv to read video from /dev/video0

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Sat Nov 22 03:31:06 EST 2003


On Saturday 22 November 2003 01:12 am, rob.parkhill at shaw.ca wrote:
> The problem is that I can't get mythtv to display the video from the
> PVR-250. I can't record anything, and I can't display anything in Live TV
> mode. If I select "Live TV" from mythfrontend, mythtv just seems to hang,
> and I have to alt-tab back to the terminal window it was run from and
> ctrl-c to quit. The same thing happens when I try to select the "watch
> recordings" option.

Like every other such error condition, there is a very good chance that there
is an error message on the console detailing what is failing.  

Barring that, follow the instructions in the official documentation on how to 
debug a problem.

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-20.html#ss20.8

Isaac


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