[mythtv-users] front end starts but unable to watch tv

[Brian Wood]

On Monday 20 April 2009 12:42:42 Mike McMullin wrote:

>   It is possible that my USB WebCam is at times setting up as video0 and
> at times setting up as video1, but when I looked at this last night,
> video1 detected in mythtv as the PVR-150, and the device numbers were
> taken from the /dev directory.  Having just deleted the card and
> re-detected it this is the result from the CLI.
>
> Mike at P-733-Lin:~> ls-l /dev/video*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       6 2009-04-20 08:14 /dev/video -> video0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81,  0 2009-04-20 08:14 /dev/video0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81,  1 2009-04-20 08:14 /dev/video1
> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 24 2009-04-20 08:14 /dev/video24
> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 32 2009-04-20 08:14 /dev/video32

I'd say in the above case your PVR is video0, otherwise you would have video25 
and video33 as the other devices. Look at the IVTV messages in your boot log.

The setup will allow you to select any video device (o or 1) for the card.

If you are getting inconsistent device numbers that will cause problems, you 
may need to set up udev to give consistent numbers.

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