[mythtv-users] cannot watch livetv

George Nychis gnychis at cmu.edu
Wed Jun 28 20:35:55 UTC 2006


Can you run "mythtv" from a console and paste the output it gives you?

I think I have a similar problem to you

Dan G wrote:
> I'm running a fully update Ubuntu Dapper install with IVTV 0.4.6 and  
> mythtv SVN from late last week.  Two hauppauge 150 tuners were  
> working fine.
> 
> I can successfully schedule, record tv, and watch recordings, but I  
> cannot watch live tv.  When I select 'livetv', the screen just  
> flashes from tuner to menu and back about once every second.  While  
> it is doing this, the frontent becomes unresponsive and just records  
> a series of livetv mpgs, 1 meg each, to disk until it eventually just  
> gives up and dumps me back to the menu.
> 
> I don't think its a permission issue, since it is writing  
> successfully to the directory.  And it was working up until the most  
> recent Ubuntu kernel update, with IVTV 0.4.4 and mythtv 0.19.1, but  
> the new kernel appears to have broken it.  I moved up to the new IVTV  
> and mythtv SVN, but that didn't fix it.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks ,
> -Dan
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