On 6/4/06, Christopher Boorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a Hauppauge 250 card on a Mandriva 2006 system. > > Some googling showed that some people had better success with the > ivtv-0.2.0rc3 for their card, so that's what I installed. > <snip> > > Trying to start tvtime in terminal gives me: > Running tvtime 1.0.1. > Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml > Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml > videoinput: Card failed to allocate capture buffers: Invalid argument >
tvtime doesn't support the ivtv cards. An alternative is to use xawtv4, http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/. There has been no release yet, so you probably have to compile it yourself from a cvs snapshot. http://dl.bytesex.org/cvs-snapshots/xawtv-20060317-134453.tar.gz > > Here's what I have for video devices: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] modules]# ls /dev/video* > /dev/video@ /dev/video0@ /dev/video24@ /dev/video32@ > > Entering: > cat /dev/video0 > /home/chris/Desktop/test.mpg > Gives me a decent size file. It's nothing but black, but MPlayer plays it. > > Entering: > cat /dev/video24 > /home/chris/Desktop/test.mpg > Gives me a much bigger file, but MPlayer doesn't play it at all, not > even an error message. > > Entering: > cat /dev/video32 > /home/chris/Desktop/test.mpg > Gives me huge ass file. All MPlayer shows is pink and green jagged > shapes like an Atari 2600 on an acid trip. MPlayer also throws up an > error: "Could not open required DirectShow codec qdv.dll. > See the file README.devices in the ivtv tarball for a description of each of the devices. The fact that cat /dev/video0 doesn't give a 0 byte file seems like a good thing. Are you sure your card is tuned to a station frequency? Regards, Petter _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
