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>I did a clean install last night of mythtv and the ivtv driver.
>
>The ivtv driver seems fine, "cat test" works great, and mythbackend
>records just fine.
>
>I can play the recorded video from the front-end, but can't watch live
>tv -- I get a blank screen that will allow me to ESC back to the
>frontend menu, and the HD runs some, but no video out.
>
>Suggestions?
>
>-Steve

This sounds exactly like what happens when you haven't got access to the
soundcard. i.e. the user who's running the frontend needs permission to
write and usuallly read /dev/dsp.
If you run from a terminal you should see an error if this is the case.

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Hmmm... Well /dev/dsp is a link to /dev/dsp0 which has R/W for the world.

I just noticed now <shame-faced> that there are three messages coming
out of the front-end indicating that it can't find the /dev/sound
directory. Now, I had Myth 0.10 working immediately prior to building
CVS, so... what is it looking for? And, is this my problem?

-S


Mark Edwards wrote:

>>I did a clean install last night of mythtv and the ivtv driver.
>>
>>The ivtv driver seems fine, "cat test" works great, and mythbackend
>>records just fine.
>>
>>I can play the recorded video from the front-end, but can't watch live
>>tv -- I get a blank screen that will allow me to ESC back to the
>>frontend menu, and the HD runs some, but no video out.
>>
>>Suggestions?
>>
>>-Steve
>>
>>
>
>This sounds exactly like what happens when you haven't got access to the
>soundcard. i.e. the user who's running the frontend needs permission to
>write and usuallly read /dev/dsp.
>If you run from a terminal you should see an error if this is the case.
>
>