[mythtv] No Video

Nathan Langley mythtv-dev@snowman.net
16 Dec 2002 17:07:09 -0600


What happens if you change the channel?

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 16:49, J Flowers wrote:
> I've seen this issue mentioned in the archives, but I still haven't 
> been able to make it work on my new system. I've tried many of the 
> suggestions from the archives (updating hdparm to do DMA for example)
> 
> I have the following system:
>   Celeron 1.7 GHz
>   265M RAM
>   40 GB HDD
>   ATI TV Wonder VE
>   Slackware 8.x (latest)
>   MythTV 0.7
>   KDE
>   * my exact build environment is in the Documentation section of my 
> website ( www.freeplaytv.org )
> 
> I have installed and configured MythTV and setup mythfilldatabase.
> 
> mythfrontend works fine. I can browse the channels, set them to record, 
> etc. Everything seems to be recording just fine.
> 
> xawtv shows a picture just fine.
> 
> /dev/dsp and /dev/video are working.
> 
> bttv is inserted as a module with the right tuner
> tuner is inserted as a module with the right type
> 
> The problem is mythtv doesn't seem to produce an image. If I run 
> mythtv, I don't get any error messages and it tells me I'm watching 
> live tv, but there's no image onscreen. Same happens in mythfrontend 
> from the watch tv icon.
> 
> Any ideas/suggestions?
> 
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