Mailing List Archive: SETUP: Problems with video device

SETUP: Problems with video device

Mar 11, 2003, 2:58 AM

Post #1 of 3 (1960 views)

Red Hat 8
Hauppauge WinTV-FM

I'm getting segmentation fault errors trying to start watching live TV.
When setup ran, XMLTV seemed to kick off ok, then it gave an error
"Couldn't open /dev/video to probe its inputs."

Looking at /dev/video, I see it is a directory. I see the following:
/dev/video/em8300
/dev/video/em8300_ma
/dev/video/em8300_mv
/dev/video/em8300_sp

I tried entering /dev/video/em8300 for the video device, no difference.
I don't know enough about video4linux to troubleshoot this.

XAWTV works fine.

Possibly unrelated: I'm getting the following error from setup (mysql
error maybe?)
Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the
authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based
authentication failed

Running "mythfilldatabase --manual" runs XMLTV and seems to download
some guide info, then gives a Segmentation Fault.

So, it looks like I need to change my config for the video device and
possibly fix something with mysql. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Re: SETUP: Problems with video device [ In reply to ]

petecool at vl

Mar 11, 2003, 5:57 AM

Post #2 of 3 (1902 views)

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On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 04:58:20 -0500
David Chappelle <david@codermonkey.com> wrote:

> Red Hat 8
> Hauppauge WinTV-FM
>
> I'm getting segmentation fault errors trying to start watching live TV.
> When setup ran, XMLTV seemed to kick off ok, then it gave an error
> "Couldn't open /dev/video to probe its inputs."
>
> Looking at /dev/video, I see it is a directory. I see the following:
> /dev/video/em8300
> /dev/video/em8300_ma
> /dev/video/em8300_mv
> /dev/video/em8300_sp
>
> I tried entering /dev/video/em8300 for the video device, no difference.
> I don't know enough about video4linux to troubleshoot this.

Do you have a /dev/video0 ?
If yes try that one.

Pete

Re: SETUP: Problems with video device [ In reply to ]

cedarmckay at mac

Mar 11, 2003, 9:16 AM

Post #3 of 3 (1884 views)

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just for the hell of it try using /dev/video0 as your video device
rather than /dev/video.

cedar

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 01:58 AM, David Chappelle wrote:

> Red Hat 8
> Hauppauge WinTV-FM
>
> I'm getting segmentation fault errors trying to start watching live
> TV. When setup ran, XMLTV seemed to kick off ok, then it gave an
> error "Couldn't open /dev/video to probe its inputs."
>
> Looking at /dev/video, I see it is a directory. I see the following:
> /dev/video/em8300
> /dev/video/em8300_ma
> /dev/video/em8300_mv
> /dev/video/em8300_sp
>
> I tried entering /dev/video/em8300 for the video device, no
> difference. I don't know enough about video4linux to troubleshoot > this.
>
> XAWTV works fine.
>
> Possibly unrelated: I'm getting the following error from setup (mysql
> error maybe?)
> Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of
> the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based
> authentication failed
>
> Running "mythfilldatabase --manual" runs XMLTV and seems to download
> some guide info, then gives a Segmentation Fault.
>
> So, it looks like I need to change my config for the video device and
> possibly fix something with mysql. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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