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Revision as of 21:28, 23 December 2006

If this sounds like you:

From the frontend, everything seems ok until I would try to watch live TV (then the frontend claims the inputs are in use, but there are no active recordings!).

or

When I try to schedule recordings, I can see the program guide but selections don't stick.

You might take a look in /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log and see something like this:

Channel(/dev/v4l/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, error "No such file or directory"
mythbackend: Problem with capture cards: Card 1failed init
ERROR: no valid capture cards are defined in the database.
Perhaps you should read the installation instructions?
mythbackend: No capture cards are defined: Please run the setup program.

In my case, the trouble was starting the backend too soon during startup. I moved the startup script later in the boot sequence and it works properly:

> su
# cd /etc/rc5.d
# mv S86mythbackend S99mythbackend