[mythtv-users] New install. Live TV not working

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Wed Jan 10 20:10:16 UTC 2007


On 10/01/07, jeff star <star_jeff at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed MythTV 0.2 on a new system under OpenSUSE 10.2, but I can't
> get anything on Live TV. If I click on it, the screen goes blank for 30
> seconds and returns to the menu. From the mythbackend:
>
> 2007-01-11 02:54:56.670 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
> 2007-01-11 02:54:56.670 adding: mythboss as a client (events: 0)
> 2007-01-11 02:54:56.670 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
> 2007-01-11 02:54:56.670 adding: mythboss as a client (events: 1)
> 2007-01-11 02:54:56.675 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2007-01-11 02:54:56.675 adding: mythboss as a client (events: 0)
> 2007-01-11 02:54:56.677 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2007-01-11 02:54:56.677 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
> 2007-01-11 02:54:57.704 ret_pid(5164) child(5164) status(0x0)
> 2007-01-11 02:54:57.705 External Tuning program exited with no error
> 2007-01-11 02:54:57.772 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Error getting codec
> params using old IVTV ioctl
>                         eno: Bad address (14)
> 2007-01-11 02:54:57.772 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Could not set MPEG
> controls 1 through 1.
>                         eno: Invalid argument (22)
> 2007-01-11 02:55:44.290 TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
>
> Capture card is PVR-150, and it works fine under VLC. I can also cat
> /dev/video0 o a file and play that OK. I'm using PAL, and I have set the
> recdord profiles in mythfrontend to 720x576
>
> I'm a bit stumped. Can anyone help out?

Could be due to the fact that the old ivtvctl functionality has been
rolled into v4l2ctl. Which versions of MythTV 0.20 (mythbackend
--version) and ivtv are you using?

Nick

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