[mythtv-users] Black Screen and Hanging when trying to watch TV

[Murph Crusher]

I have a similar problem. I use a Hauppauge WinTV BT878 PCI on a SuSE 8.2. 
Starting LiveTV crashes the backend and in the frontend there only stays a 
black screen telling me in the console that it tries to connect to the 
backend. But the backend has already crashed with the following messages:

ioctl VIDIOC_G_FMT: Das Argument ist ungültig
mythbackend: ratecontrol.c:362: get_qminmax: Zusicherung »qmin <= qmax« nicht 
erfüllt.
Abgebrochen


Am Freitag, 3. Oktober 2003 06:58 schrieb Michael Greb:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:38:42PM -0400, Andrew Hogue wrote:
> > Can anyone help me out with this?  Sometimes I get a message from mythtv
> > saying that /dev/dsp cannot be opened... has anyone else had this error?
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> >
> > -- Andrew
>
> This is generally a symptom of your sound driver not supporting full
> duplex audio, you might check into this.  This is one of the reasons
> alsa is recommended.  The backend opens /dev/dsp to record the audio and
> the frontend is not able to open /dev/dsp for output due to it being
> open already.
>
> Hope this is helpful.
> Michael