[mythtv-users] Unknown video codec / Inappropriate ioctl for device?

[James Colannino]

Wow, well I sure feel stupid =P  I tried that and it worked like a 
charm.  I can't believe that had eluded me the entire time.  I spent a 
week on the command line trying to get things working and all I had to 
do was change one stupid little menu entry.  *sigh*  And I did set that 
in the beginning too and that's why it was working before.  Something 
must have screwed up my settings and I didn't know what to chance back.  
Thanks for the help :)

James

Chris Osgood wrote:

>It looks like the card type is not set right for the PVR-250 (ie. it
>thinks it is a normal v4l bttv style card).
>
>I suggest checking in the "setup" program to make sure your card is set as
>the appropriate type (hardware MPEG or whatever it's called).
>
>But I'm not sure since I'm new to this MythTV stuff.
>
>--
>// Chris
>
>
>On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, James Colannino wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hey everyone.  I started up the backend and all was good.  However, trying to watch
>>TV resulted in a blank screen.  I ran the backend in the foreground and did this again
>>to see what had happened and found the following:
>>
>>Unknown video codec: VIDIOCGCAP :: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>
>>This is weird because it was working just fine for a while and just all of a sudden
>>decided to dump this error on me.  It's really weird.  Below is the complete output
>>of the backend.  This is MythTV 0.13 if that makes a difference, running on
>>Fedora Core 1.  Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated.  The card is a
>>Hauppauge PVR-250 using the ivtv drivers.
>>
>>James
>>
>>2004-01-02 16:22:37 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
>>2004-01-02 16:22:39 Found changes in the todo list.
>>2004-01-02 16:22:52 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>>2004-01-02 16:22:52 adding: localhost.localdomain as a player 0
>>2004-01-02 16:22:52 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>>2004-01-02 16:22:52 adding: localhost.localdomain as a player 1
>>2004-01-02 16:22:52 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>>2004-01-02 16:22:52 adding: localhost.localdomain as a player 0
>>2004-01-02 16:22:52 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>>2004-01-02 16:22:52 adding: localhost.localdomain as a player 0
>>2004-01-02 16:22:52 adding: localhost.localdomain as a remote ringbuffer
>>2004-01-02 16:22:52 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>>Unknown video codec: VIDIOCGCAP :: Inappropriate ioctl for device
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