[mythtv-users] Re: Can't get video data from capture card

Ben Buxton mythtv at ml.cactii.net
Wed Jul 14 05:33:09 EDT 2004


Jit V <jit_v1 at hotmail.com> uttered the following thing:
> I seem to be getting some similar issues, here's the output when I start the
> mythbackend.
> 
> Starting up as the master server.
> 2004-07-13 20:05:36 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend DST TERR.
> 2004-07-13 20:05:36 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to verify channel integrity.
> 2004-07-13 20:05:36 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options for channel 1.
> 2004-07-13 20:05:36 mythbackend version: 0.15.20040525-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2004-07-13 20:05:36 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2004-07-13 20:05:38 Found changes in the todo list.
> 2004-07-13 20:05:38 Scheduled 0 items in 0.007267 seconds.
> 2004-07-13 20:05:38 Seem to be woken up by USER
> 
> I've double checked all the settings for channel 1 and they all seem okay. The
> dvb card seems to work fine with dvbstream.

DVB is always a bit tricky with MythTV, but it can be done. Last weekend
I spend a good few hours hand hacking the mysql database to finally get
it working.

If you're confident with mysql, you can check the cardinput table and
verify that the 'startchan' for your DVB card actually matches a valid
configured DVB channel.

I could give you a dump of my own sql tables, but I'm using satellite
here and you seem to be picking up with terrestrial.

Further, I found that I could only get it going if I enabled the option
to always keep the dvb device open.

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