[mythtv-users] problems with mythtv

[David Kramer]

Jared Greenwald wrote:
> I'm having a few problems with my mythtv setup and I'm looking for a little
> help.
> 
> First, I can't seem to get live TV to play properly.  That's not to say
> that
> my WinTV PVR-250 isn't working.  I can re-direct output from /dev/video
> into
> a file and play it just fine under mplayer (/dev/video > /tmp/video ;
> mplayer /tmp/video) - it just doesn't play directly as live tv under
> mythtv.

Please explain what you mean by "properly".

I was having that problem with my PVR-350 (the screen was black, and I
got an error, which I was able to google.  You need to look in your
logfiles for errors.  The problem for me was that I had set up the card
as a V3L instead of MPEG encorder.