[mythtv-users] Need Help configuring Capture Card/Video Device

Kent Rigby kent.rigby at comcast.net
Sun Jun 18 07:48:29 UTC 2006


Joe,

You Rock!  You gave me just enough hints to help me find the problem.  I am 
sitting here watching TV on my PC as I type this.  I can not thank you 
enough.

The problem was 2 things, 1) the old module files were still out there 
somewhere and they were the ones being loaded, I searched for them and moved 
replaced every one I found with the new ones. 2) Somehow I missed moving 4 of 
the module files into the module directories, once I realized that it was 
smooth sailing.

Thanks again, and have a good day.

Kent
On Saturday 17 June 2006 09:40 pm, Joe Votour wrote:
> --- Kent Rigby <kent.rigby at comcast.net> wrote:
> > There is an RPM, I installed it, when I boot the
> > machine I get  a message that
> > the module could not loaded because the build
> > failed.  But when do an lsmod I
> > see the module in the output.
> >
> > I think I found the PVR card under /dev/dri/card0.
> > MythTV seems to be happy
> > with that device, but I still can't watch tv.  The
> > log says:
> > Channel(/dev/dri/card0) Error: SetInputAndFormat(0,
> > NTSC)
> > 			while setting format (v4l v1)
> > 			eno: Permission denied (13)
> > 2006-06-17 21:08:53.683 Channel(/dev/dri/card0)
> > Error: SetInputAndFormat(0,
> > NTSC)
> > 			while setting format (v4l v1)
> > 			eno: Permission denied (13)
> > 2006-06-17 21:08:53.685 Channel(/dev/dri/card0)
> > Error: SetInputAndFormat(0,
> > ATSC)
> > 			while setting format (v4l v1)
> > 			eno: Permission denied (13)
> > 2006-06-17 21:08:53.686 Channel(/dev/dri/card0):
> > SetInputAndFormat() failed
> > 2006-06-17 21:08:53.688 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to
> > set channel to 15.
> > 2006-06-17 21:08:53.696 New DB connection, total: 3
> > 2006-06-17 21:08:53.699 Connected to database
> > 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
> > 2006-06-17 21:08:53.729 TVRec(1) Error: Channel: ''
> > was not found in the
> > database.
> > 			Most likely, your DefaultTVChannel setting is
> > wrong.
> > 			Could not start livetv.
> > 2006-06-17 21:08:53.731 TVRec(1) Error:
> > CreateLiveTVRingBuffer() failed
> > 2006-06-17 21:08:53.732 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to
> > create RingBuffer 2
> > 2006-06-17 21:08:53.735 TVRec(1): Changing from
> > WatchingLiveTV to None
> >
> > I set the default channel to 15, which is valid.
> >
> > I appreciate the help.  Any suggestions you can give
> > would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Kent
>
> </snip>
>
> The device /dev/dri/card0 is *not* your PVR-350 - that
> is a device for X11 for the "Direct Rendering
> Infrastructure".  In short, you're trying to capture
> data from your video card, which isn't correct.
> (Therefore, I am guessing that you are not running an
> nVidia card, at least not with their proprietary
> drivers, since in that case, you shouldn't even have
> DRI loaded.)
>
> You need to have the ivtv driver loaded to use your
> PVR-350, and it should show up as /dev/video0 (or
> maybe /dev/v4l/video0, although I haven't used a
> distribution that used that naming convention).
>
> Look through the output of the "dmesg" command - you
> should see a bunch of lines starting with "ivtv:" - in
> my case, I have one (among many others) that says,
> "ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1), card #0".
>  You should see a similar one, except it should say,
> "PVR-350".
>
> If you don't see that, then the ivtv driver is not
> loading, and simply put, you can't do any recording or
> watching TV in MythTV until you get it properly
> installed.
>
> -- Joe
>
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