[mythtv-users] MythTV Help needed

[Khanh Tran]

First off, make sure you run setup before starting up your backend.  If
you've never had MythTV configured or running before zap2it changed
their systems last week, you will have a problem setting up the sources
and video cards.  Normally, you set up a video card (in your case
/dev/video0).  Don't confuse that with sourceid.  Your sources are then
created by entering your ZIP code and choosing a provider/listing in the
setup.  Since setup uses tv_grab_na, which no longer works, setup
probably won't be able to create the source and then populate the
database properly.

I'm not sure how you can easily configure a new database under these
conditions.  If I were you, I'd attempt a CVS install.  This will use
datadirect, but of course, possibly open more issues.

-Khanh


-----Original Message-----
From: qcs at cableone.net [mailto:qcs at cableone.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:55 PM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] MythTV Help needed

I am having a great deal of trouble getting MythTV to work properly. I
can get the backend and frontend running but when I try and watch TV I
get a nice black screen. The first obvious problem is that MythTV seems
to be trying to use tv_grab_na and I only have the newer tv_grab_dd.
I've tryed getting the XML file and then using mythfilldatabase --file
but I'm not sure what sourceid means. I am using /dev/video0 so I assume
that my sourceid should be 0. After running mythfilldatabase --file 0 -1
/tmp/tv.xml it displays some benign, I think, errors dealing with icons
and such. The channels table in my database is populated but I have no
idea if the data is correct. When I run mythbackend I get these two
errors:
CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel "3" in the "setup" Channel
Editor.
Cableone is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput.

One thing that looks to me like it might be wrong is the freqid in the
channel table. All of my entries are in the format '2 KJR' or '3 KDO'.
Is this the data that should be in this field? I have been working on
this all day and am getting burned out but I really would like to get it
going. If anyone can offer give me some suggestions on what I might be
doing wrong I'd be greatful. I've included my system specs below.

AMD 2400+
TNT2 video card
Hauppauge WinTV-GO 150
Fedora Core 1