On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Juan Flores Lizana wrote: > Hi all > > When i try to watch tv with tvtime ( tvtime-1.0.1-0.fc4.1 )system says > ivtv: Invalid argument > Cannot open capture device /dev/video
You might have missed this over at the tvtime web site: "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." Lots of folks on this list use MythTV. I'm not one of'em. I keep it real simple. To watch tv I do this: cat /dev/video0 > tv.mpg Then: mplayer tv.mpg This gives you the added benefit of being able to hit the space bar and "pause live tv." :-) Scheduled recording is handled by cron and a small shell script. -- Jon Winters IBM Model-M Keyboards http://www.obscura.us/ Type Hard or Go Home! _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
