SV: [mythtv-users] tvtime vs ptune.pl

[Marius Schrecker]

>I'm still trying to get my PVR-500 working 100%.  Right now, I can use
ptune.pl to >change the channel, and then cat /dev/video0 >
/tmp/test.mpg, and then play that in >mplayer.  Works like a charm.
However, when I try to launch tvtime, I get the following:
>
>Running tvtime 0.9.15.
>Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
>Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
>xcommon: No window properties found for EWMH.
>videoinput: Card failed to allocate capture buffers: Invalid argument
>
>On the screen it shows just a blue screen with "no signal" at the top.
If I try to change >channels, I get the message "cannot open capture
device /dev/video0."  This doesn't >make sense, because I was just able
to read from /dev/video0!  xawtv and mythfrontend >also don't seem able
to use the tuner, but the combination of ptune.pl and mplayer seem >ok.
Anybody have any ideas?


 
Hi Brian,
 
      I didn't think TVtime was able to support cards like the PVR-500.
You might want to try something like xawtv instead.
 
Cheers
 
Marius
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