[mythtv-users] Help with FC4 0.18 -> 0.19, blew up IVTV now can't record or remote... Thanks for the help!

[Maverick]

> If you are getting static then its not ivtv. You are watching the tv tuner
> input which is not tuned to a useful channel. Have you tried watching the
> video card directly? Something along the lines of cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg
> and then try to play that with mplayer? I suspect you have an external

The test.mpg records fine. I know it's not ivtv causing the static,
that's why I emailed the myth list and not ivtv-devel. :)

> problem. I forget the commands to configure the card at the command line but
> a google should help. Last time I looked Jarod's site had a section on
> testing the source manually. Check it out again.

ivtvctl which I still have in my rc.local... nothing there changed.

> Worst thing that could happen is you have to go and download one of the
> precompiled FC4+myth packages announced here on the list in the past few
> weeks.

That's what I installed, the yum install mythtv-suite.

-Kenneth