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 -- Stuff for sale -- http://www.brianandsara.net/temp/forsale.html Gentoo Linux -- http://www.gentoo.org IVTV -- http://ivtv.writeme.ch ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
