[mythtv-users] IVTV Revisited 0.7.1 FC4

[Nick]

On 26/10/06, Thom Paine <painethom at gmail.com> wrote:
> I still haven't been able to get my tuners online after a few weeks
> now. Today I was working on them again and still no go. I am able to
> record a test video by catting /dev/video0 > /tmp/test/mpg and then
> playing it with mplayer. Inside myth I can't get anything.

Can you do this successfully with both of your cards from the command
line? If so, that's a big positive. What did you do to get to this
point? (Your previous posts stated you could not display video at all
via ivtv.) Are you still running the same kernel and version of ivtv
that you were when you had things running?

> I'm at a total loss as to what to try next, and I was thinking of
> rolling back to a previous version of ivtv, but I don't see that I
> can.
>
> I can roll back a kernel and grab the related stuff for that, but just
> now after googleing, I see I need ivtv 0.6.4 with a kernel of 2.6.16.
>
> I checked ATrpms for the older version of ivtv, but I don't see a
> version 0.6.4 available for download there.
>
> Anyone have suggestions at this point? I'm missing alot of my shows
> and I can't seem to figure out where the problem lies.

I see from previous related threads you've done the standard "Delete
All Video Sources" and "Delete All Capture Cards". When you add the
cards after having done this, please detail the exact steps you take.

> I can post anyhing from logs that will help if someone can help me
> out. I've tried all I know and I can't seem to bring the tuners
> online.

To get useful logs, run the backend (more important) and the frontend
(less important) with the '-v all' options and direct the ouptut to
fresh logfiles. Schedule a recording and, once it has failed, stop the
backend and grab the logs. Put them online somewhere and I'm sure
someone will take a look at them. If you can also provide the
capturecard, cardinput, channel and videosource mythconverg tables it
may help to diagnose your problem.

Nick

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