[mythtv-users] FC2 and IvyTV Problems and Questions

[jon e wishbone]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:02:05 -0700, Jarod Wilson <jcw at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 23 September 2004 13:08, jon e wishbone wrote:
> > > > I've attached the output of
> > > > mythbackend.log and mythfrontend.log. I started both with the '-v all'
> > > > options to see if this would be of some help.
> > > >
> > > > I noticed this in mythbackend.log:
> > > >     2004-09-22 21:40:49 adding: replay.cabuki.com as a client (events:
> > > > 0) 2004-09-22 21:40:49 2       OK
> > > >     2004-09-22 21:40:49 Getting next free recorder after : -1
> > > >     2004-09-22 21:40:49 Card 1 is local.
> > > >
> > > > but a second later it says:
> > > >     2004-09-22 21:40:50 adding: replay.cabuki.com as a remote
> > > > ringbuffer
> > > >
> > > > Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere?
> > >
> > > Dunno. I never watch live TV on my master backend, so I couldn't say if
> > > that is normal or not. I believe all ringbuffers are treated as network
> > > addresses though, so it may be normal. Not sure. You might just nuke your
> > > db, re-import mc.sql and go through setup again and see if that clears up
> > > the problem... I'm pretty much out of ideas.
> >
> > I dropped/recreated the DB and re-ran setup. Nothing changed. Just for
> > grins and giggles, I tried using TV Time. With that, I get a blue
> > screen. I bring up the menu to change the input configuration, but it
> > won't let me change the video source.
> 
> I got nuthin'. Not sure TVTime works w/a PVR-x50 at all, try mplayer instead.
> I can't recall if you already said the card definitely works or not. Maybe
> that's the root of the problem?
> 
> 

I can capture using 'cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/tmp.mpg' and then watch
the clip in mplayer. If I try mplayer /dev/video0, then it captures
about a frame and the errors out. I'm not sure that's supposed to
work, though. I'm tempted to put the card in my windows machine to see
if it really works.