[mythtv-users] Watch TV after startup fails
Adam Biskobing
tv at badmoon.com
Mon Feb 23 10:50:51 EST 2004
Can you bring up the EPG, or change channels with the blank screen?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Aleaxander
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 1:51 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Watch TV after startup fails
>
>
> Okay, this may be something obvious that I'm missing, and I'm really
> hoping someone has already figured this out, but I can't
> figure out why
> watching live tv fails when I first load up mythfrontend.
> Basically, I
> get a black screen that I can't exit from if select "Watch
> TV" after a
> fresh boot. However, if I tell mythtv to record something first, via
> mythweb or "Schedule Recordings/Program Guide", it will
> record the show
> fine, and then, after that initial and successful recording, live tv
> will work fine. This is true on both my master system and the slave
> system (they share tv and video via NFS). It is like something that
> Mythtv does sets up either my pvr-250 or the database to work
> correctly,
> and once that is done via a scheduled recording, everything
> works fine.
> I can watch live tv if I first schedule and record a TV show first.
>
> I thought that perhaps the default channel was set to something bad
> within mythtvsetup, but it looks like the channel set under "Input
> connections" is a valid channel. At this point I really
> don't know what
> is going on.
>
> Any ideas on why this is happening?
>
> -Alex
>
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