[mythtv-users] PVR-250 not capturing

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Mark <fairlane at springcom.com> wrote:
> I've got a couple of old PVR-250's I just threw into my backend to take me
> up to 4 tuners. The backend is saying it can't open audio device.  I can
> find next to no information on
> the tuner card setup in mythtv-setup on this, it seems to have all been
> deprecated on the docs.
>
> In mythtv-setup, my choices for audio device on this card are -
> Alsa:default, none, /dev/dsp.  None seem to work.
> I tested the cards with cat /dev/video1 > test.mpg and get a proper output.
>  My kernel
> is 2.6.31 or thereabouts.  IVTV should be rolled into the kernel.  lsmod
> gives me the proper msp3400 listing.
>
> What else should I be looking for?

See if it works outside of mythtv.

http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Troubleshooting#Use_.22cat_.2Fdev.2FvideoX_.3E_test.mpg.22_to_test

John