[mythtv-users] Couldn't open [ MPEG : /dev/video3 ] to probe
its inputs.
Simon Gornall
mythtv at gornall.net
Sat Oct 25 14:17:44 EDT 2003
Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 09:57, Simon Gornall wrote:
>
>
>> Robert Kulagowski wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Make sure that /dev/video/* aren't actually symlinks to /dev/v4l/*
>>> and if they are, that the perms in /dev/v4l are good.
>>>
>>
>> No, I don't have a /dev/v4l/..
>>
>
>
> You have most probably been hit by this:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=85748;search_string=could%20not%20open%20%2Fdev%2Fvideo%20probe;guest=1430245&t=search_engine#85748
>
>
> As you're messages are very colorfull, but don't mention anything about
> the version of MythTV, I can't be sure.
>
> Be sure to do a 'make distclean;' and 'cvs up -fd;' if you have cvs.
>
> Kenneth
>
>
Whoops. I had thought I'd mentioned that I was using the CVS tree. What
I hadn't done was a 'make distclean'. I'll have another try after
another check with 'cvs up -fd'.
As for colourful, well I've just upgraded to Mozilla 1.5, and sometimes
the defaults aren't ideal. With luck this should now be plaintext rather
than HTML, even though it seems to insist I compose the mail within an
HTML-style window...
Thanks a lot for the pointer
ATB,
Simon
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