D'oh! From the tvtime web site:<br>
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<p>ivtv - The ivtv driver supports cards that provide high quality MPEG2
encoded video. This cards are ideal for PVR systems. However,
tvtime has no MPEG2 decoding capabilities or audio playback code,
and therefore cannot be used to watch live TV from these cards.</p>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/23/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marius Schrecker</b> <<a href="mailto:marius@schrecker.org">marius@schrecker.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font color="navy" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;">></span></font>I'm
still trying to get my PVR-500 working 100%. Right now, I can use
ptune.pl to <font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">></span></font>change
the channel, and then cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test.mpg, and then play that in
<font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">></span></font><span>mplayer</span>.
Works like a charm. However, when I try to launch tvtime, I get the following:<br>
<font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">></span></font><br>
<font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">></span></font>Running <span>tvtime</span> 0.9.15.<br>
<font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">></span></font>Reading
configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml<br>
<font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">></span></font>Reading
configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml<br>
<span><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">></span></font><span>xcommon</span>: No window properties found for EWMH.</span><br>
<font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">></span></font><span>videoinput</span>:
Card failed to allocate capture buffers: Invalid argument<br>
<font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">></span></font><br>
<font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">></span></font>On the screen it
shows just a blue screen with "no signal" at the top. If I try
to change <font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">></span></font>channels,
I get the message "cannot open capture device /dev/video0."
This doesn't <font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">></span></font>make
sense, because I was just able to read from /dev/video0! <span>xawtv</span> and mythfrontend <font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">></span></font>also don't seem able to use the tuner, but
the combination of ptune.pl and mplayer seem <font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;">></span></font>ok. Anybody have any ideas?<br>
<br>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p></span></div>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi Brian,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span> </span>I didn't
think <span>TVtime</span> was able to support cards like the
PVR-500. You might want to try something like <span>xawtv</span>
instead.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Cheers</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Marius<font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;"></span></font></span></font></p>
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