[mythtv-users] Watch TV after startup fails

[Adam Biskobing]

Can you bring up the EPG, or change channels with the blank screen?

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> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Aleaxander
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 1:51 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Watch TV after startup fails
> 
> 
> Okay, this may be something obvious that I'm missing, and I'm really 
> hoping someone has already figured this out, but I can't 
> figure out why 
> watching live tv fails when I first load up mythfrontend.  
> Basically, I 
> get a black screen that I can't exit from if select "Watch 
> TV" after a 
> fresh boot.  However, if I tell mythtv to record something first, via 
> mythweb or "Schedule Recordings/Program Guide", it will 
> record the show 
> fine, and then, after that initial and successful recording, live tv 
> will work fine.  This is true on both my master system and the slave 
> system (they share tv and video via NFS).  It is like something that 
> Mythtv does sets up either my pvr-250 or the database to work 
> correctly, 
> and once that is done via a scheduled recording, everything 
> works fine. 
>   I can watch live tv if I first schedule and record a TV show first.
> 
> I thought that perhaps the default channel was set to something bad 
> within mythtvsetup, but it looks like the channel set under "Input 
> connections" is a valid channel.  At this point I really 
> don't know what 
> is going on.
> 
> Any ideas on why this is happening?
> 
> -Alex
>