[mythtv-users] read error

Niels den Otter otter at kjoe.net
Tue Mar 15 13:39:03 UTC 2005


Marty,

On Wednesday, 16 March 2005, Marty Ravell wrote:
>    I am getting a whole bunch of errors from mythbackend when I try to
>    Watch TV on my new FC3 (Jarod's guide), 350 system.
> 
>    They read :
> 
>    error reading from: /dev/video16
>    read: Operation not permitted
>    error reading from: /dev/video16
>    read: Operation not permitted
> 
>    These errors repeat until I exit back out to the Myth menu.
> 
>    Any ideas?

Please check if your mythtv useraccount has sufficient rights on
/dev/video16. In my case:

otter at nasi:~$ ls -al /dev/video16
crw-rw----  1 root video 81, 16 2005-03-07 12:16 /dev/video16

otter at nasi:~$ grep video /etc/group
video:x:44:mythtv


-- Niels
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