Alan Secker wrote:
> Hello Bryan
> 
> I wanted to try the least demanding way to get a picture to appear. As
> Mandriva
> put the kdeTV  icon on the desktop, I assumed it was compatible.

Too bad Mandriva aren't as smart as you give them credit for. They probably just
add it anytime there is a /dev/video0. I suggest filing a bug for them.


> Anyway, I
> tried mplayer /dev/video0. It came up but only showed snow.

That's good. Now you just need to tune something.

> 
> I then tried  ptune.pl as you suggested. That returned:
> 
> Can't locate Video/Frequencies.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at
> ptune.pl line 8.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ptune.pl line 8.

You can get the required perl modules from the sourceforge site
(sourceforge.net/projects/ivtv). This is mentioned on one of the READMEs in the
tarball.

> 
> I finally installed mythTV (apparently overcoming MySQL dependency
> problems) It produced:
> 
> Unable to connect to database!
> Driver error was [1/2013]:
> QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
> Database error was:
> Lost connection to MySQL server during query

You have to have mysql to use mythtv. You can find install docs on the
mythtv.org website. They are very in depth.

--Brian

> 
> Regards
> 
> Alan


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