[mythtv-users] Encoder disappears

Jos Hoekstra joshoekstra at gmx.net
Thu Sep 23 21:14:36 UTC 2010


  Op 23-9-2010 13:14, barbex schreef:
> 2010-09-23 11:00:32.304 Channel(/dev/video1)::Open(): Can't open video
> device, error "Permission denied"
I notice the following:

Sep 23 11:00:31 digitus kernel: [   19.297126] ivtv0: Registered device 
video1 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)

2010-09-23 11:00:32.304 Channel(/dev/video1)::Open(): Can't open video 
device, error "Permission denied"

It seems to me your backend user for some reason can not get acces to 
your video-device, probably a permission issue or something else is 
using the card.

Do you have a webcam or something connected as well? Becasue by default 
your first capturecard will get /dev/video0.
I guess relaxing permissions on the card to something like:
ls -la /dev/video1

crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81,  1 2010-09-15 02:19 /dev/video1

and/or adding the backend user to the video group might solve this, have 
you ever made a recording from this device?

Good luck,

Jos Hoekstra



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