[mythtv-users] How to start MythTV Backend?

Forum forum-da at padaba.de
Wed Nov 20 20:42:40 UTC 2013


Am 19.11.2013 23:08, schrieb Paul Wootton:
> On 19 Nov 2013, at 22:00, Forum <forum-da at padaba.de> wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> You're right, firmware was missing.
>> In "Capture Card Setup", the field DVB device is now filled with "/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0",
>> but in FrontendID, I still have an error:
>> "Could not get card ... [] Subtype: Unknown error".
>>
>> -- Damian --
> Now I'm moving outside my area of expertise...  Looking at
>
> http://www.mythtvtalk.com/help-failing-get-mythtv-up-running-15031/
>
> (which is worth a read),  it *might* be a permissions problem on the /dev/dvb ... directories.   The solution in the case above was to add mythtv to the video group.
>
> -- Paul --
>
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Good idea, but am I doing it right?:

I've tried "groups mythtv" and received:
mythtv : mythtv dialout cdrom audio video

I've also tried "less /etc/group" and received:
[...]
video:x:44:mythtv
[...]

That looks like MythTV is always in the video group.

-- Damian --


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