Fwd: FW: [mythtv-users] Capture ok, no live tv

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 08 April 2004 13:11, steve ickes wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Joseph A. Caputo
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 9:35 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Capture ok, no live tv
>
> > On Thursday 08 April 2004 02:20, steve ickes wrote:
> > > Just installed Mythtv (for the second time) following Fedora
> > > Core/mythtv how-to. I am able to do a test capture and view in 
both
> > > Mplayer and Xine However, whenever I try and watch live tv, I get 
a
> > > black screen. I've tried waiting up to 30 seconds but nothing ever
> > > shows up. Although the program is buffering to disk, it shouldn't
> > > take this long.
> > >
> > > The backend and frontend are currently running on the same pc.
> > > Specs are as follows: AMD 1800+
> > > 512MB RAM
> > > 80GB 7200RPM hard drive
> > > PVR 250
> > > Nvidia GeForce 4 MMX 440
> > >
> > > At first I couldn't do the test capture until I tried unloading 
and
> > > reloading ivtv module.
> >
> > What version of Myth are you running?  This used to be a typical
> > symptom of Myth not being able to open the audio output device.  In
> > the CVS version, you would get a pop-up indicating such, but in 0.14
> > you'd just get a black screen.
> >
> > -JAC
>
>
> I am currently running Mythtv v.0.14. Are you saying that the tv card
> is unable to open audio? Because audio works fine with everything
> else. Little confused..


No, you have a PVR-250, so it doesn't need access to the audio device to 
capture, as the capture card muxes the audio into the MPEG stream.  
However, you do need to open the audio device to do playback.  When you 
say "audio works fine with everything else", does that include playing 
back a previously recorded show in Myth?  If that works OK, then you 
have a different problem.

Try this:  run mythfrontend from a terminal and try LiveTV.  Then take a 
look at the terminal and see if mythfrontend prints any interesting 
diagnostic messages...

-JAC