[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Strangeness

Arpotu arpotu at apathynews.com
Fri May 2 03:03:21 UTC 2008


All,

I have run MythTV 0.21 on my new Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop for about a week now,
while I waited for my PVR-350 to arrive.  Well, it came in today, I hooked
it up, and after a few gyrations it is working - kind of.

I can use "mplayer /dev/video0" to display the video, but nothing else
works with it - MythTV, tvtime, etc, etc... are a no-go.  I can even do
the "cat /dev/video0 > blah.mpg", and I get a playable mpeg.

tvtime complains with:

ivtv: invalid argument
Cannot open capture device /dev/video0

...but I believe ivtv is working properly since I can "cat to an mpeg"
without errors.

When I click "Watch TV", the MythTV menus just "blip" for second then it
returns to the menu.

Ideas?  Surely someone has seen this before.

Thanks,
Arpotu



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