[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Strangeness

Scott Harris mythtv at webhounds.net
Fri May 2 05:19:34 UTC 2008



Arpotu wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have run MythTV 0.21 on my new Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop for about a week now,
> while I waited for my PVR-350 to arrive.  Well, it came in today, I hooked
> it up, and after a few gyrations it is working - kind of.
> 
> I can use "mplayer /dev/video0" to display the video, but nothing else
> works with it - MythTV, tvtime, etc, etc... are a no-go.  I can even do
> the "cat /dev/video0 > blah.mpg", and I get a playable mpeg.
> 
> tvtime complains with:
> 
> ivtv: invalid argument
> Cannot open capture device /dev/video0
> 


What about a simple start of what

ls -la /dev/video*

shows?


Scott


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