[mythtv-users] HD-PVR giving up

[John P Poet]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:40 AM, mark <markhsa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Marius Schrecker wrote:
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>> On Thu Oct 29 22:31 , mark wrote:Marius Schrecker wrote:
>>> Hi all,
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>>> Can anyone say what I'm doing wrong?
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> Mark replied:
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>>Ensure you have permissions on /dev/video as well.
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> I am also running combined FE/BE.  Also Ubuntu 9.10.  I have no issues at
> all, so it must be config related.  So I am sure we can get your setup
> working.
> Read only should be fine on /dev/video

Are you sure about that?  Myth needs to be able to tell the HD-PVR
what bitrate to record at, etc.  I am pretty sure it would need write
privileges on the device.

John
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