>I'm still trying to get my PVR-500 working 100%.  Right now, I can use ptune.pl to >change the channel, and then cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test.mpg, and then play that in >mplayer.  Works like a charm.  However, when I try to launch tvtime, I get the following:
>
>Running tvtime 0.9.15.
>Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
>Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
>xcommon: No window properties found for EWMH.
>videoinput: Card failed to allocate capture buffers: Invalid argument
>
>On the screen it shows just a blue screen with "no signal" at the top.  If I try to change >channels, I get the message "cannot open capture device /dev/video0."  This doesn't >make sense, because I was just able to read from /dev/video0!  xawtv and mythfrontend >also don't seem able to use the tuner, but the combination of ptune.pl and mplayer seem >ok.  Anybody have any ideas?

 

Hi Brian,

 

      I didn’t think TVtime was able to support cards like the PVR-500. You might want to try something like xawtv instead.

 

Cheers

 

Marius

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