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Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

>Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>channel '0' has no tuner (composite)
>VIDIOCMCAPTUREi0: Invalid argument
>
>
Try to make sure that the "start channel" of the Tuner input is correct
(and tunable). It is a channel number.

On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 17:18:03 +0200, Ben Bucksch wrote:
>> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>> channel '0' has no tuner (composite)
>> VIDIOCMCAPTUREi0: Invalid argument
>>
>>
> Try to make sure that the "start channel" of the Tuner input is
> correct (and tunable). It is a channel number.

Cool, that mostly fixed it. However, I also found that I had to run
mythbackend as root (although /dev/dsp should have been readable and
writable by my mythtv user, so I don't know what the problem was).
Audio is *really* bad quality compared to passing through the sound card
like xawtv does, but I guess that's a hardware limitation.

Couple of very minor questions though:

* Does anyone have a suggestion of how to remove the GNOME panel and
window decorations from the TV window under GNOME 1.4 and IceWM?

* Whenever I go into the Weather application, it shows me the setup
screen. This is even after I have already set it up.

Also a suggestion:

* There should be the ability to manually record, without having to
select a program from the program guide. Since I don't have XMLTV for
Australia, I would much prefer just to be able to say "record this
until I tell you to stop", or "record for the next hour", or "record
from 8:30 until 9:30 tonight". I mean, my VCR can do that easily so
why not MythTV?

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Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

>
>
>Cool, that mostly fixed it.
>
great.

>(although /dev/dsp should have been readable and
>writable by my mythtv user, so I don't know what the problem was).
>
The backend runs as account "mythtv" for me.

>Audio is *really* bad quality compared to passing through the sound card
>like xawtv does, but I guess that's a hardware limitation.
>
No, I also have a saa7134 card and it works relatively well for me
(modulo the mp3 compression, I guess). I had a hard time get audio
working, though, see a post by me on the list(s) some time ago, search
for "saa7134".

>* Does anyone have a suggestion of how to remove the GNOME panel and
> window decorations from the TV window under GNOME 1.4 and IceWM?
>
Use another window manager, e.g. blackbox.

>* There should be the ability to manually record, without having to
> select a program from the program guide.
>
Feature added to CVS version.

>Since I don't have XMLTV for Australia
>
Somebody on the xmltv-dev list just volunteered to write one :).

Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

> * There should be the ability to manually record, without having to
> select a program from the program guide. Since I don't have XMLTV for
> Australia, I would much prefer just to be able to say "record this
> until I tell you to stop", or "record for the next hour", or "record
> from 8:30 until 9:30 tonight". I mean, my VCR can do that easily so
> why not MythTV?

Yes. Schedule Recordings->Manual Recording. Although it
doesn't have a start time feature.

-- bjm