[mythtv] Problems with new mythtv install

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Mon Jan 20 20:12:18 EST 2003


On Monday 20 January 2003 07:52 pm, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> Hi,
> First can I say what a fantastic project!
> Now my first problem :(. I have installed everything, and configured
> everything and it appears to work apart from actually displaying video!
> If I record a show, the show is recorded, and in the choose recording
> screen the preview window shows it playing, however if I select it I
> just get a blank screen, and a flashing harddrive light. The same
> happens if I choose to watch live TV.
> I am wondering if my 8500DV is the problem, or I have just mis
> configured something. I am using a Win-TV card to do the capture, and
> this is all running under redhat8.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?

Well, without you pasting in _any_ of the debugging messages that mythtv 
prints out when it starts playing something, no, no ideas.  It could be a 
number of things.

Isaac


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