[mythtv-users] Grabbers

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 12/30/2008 02:48:25 AM, Ian Liverton wrote:
> 
> > Configuring video sources, mythtv does not find any grabbers. Run 
> > standalone, tv_find_grabbers finds them. What am I missing?
> 
> Try running
> 
> time tv_find_grabbers
> 
> How long does it take to run?  I seem to remember I had a problem 
> with
> a
> grabber responding very slowly, and mythtv-setup getting bored and
> giving
> up.  I think the timeout is 30 secs?
> 
> I bodged mine by making the tv_find_grabbers script more specific. 
> The
> grabbers searched for are specified around line 85 (in the version 
> I'm
> running).  Look for the line
> 
> my @grabbers = <$p/tv_grab_*>;
> 
> Change it to something more specific; for instance because I'm in the
> uk I
> didn't care about any other grabbers, so I made it
> 
> my @grabbers = <$p/tv_grab_uk*>;

Turns out the the solution was simpler even. The list of grabbers was 
buried under what appeared to be a button but was in fact a drop-down 
menanu on the video sources screen. The inverted triangle was missing 
from the button. I discovered this quite by accident.

Thanks for the suggestion.