[mythtv-users] problems with mythtv

[Jared Greenwald]

On 2/23/07, David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:
>
> 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.


That did it!   I don't know why I didn't notice the V3L marking on the
capture.  Thanks for the help.
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