[ubuntu-za] Video (TV) capture card

[Robert Holm]

On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 15:07 +0200, Trevor Hughes wrote:
> Maybe a bit too obvious - but before you struggle with linux have you
> got the card working properly under windows?
> 
> Myth TV is Joyous once you have it working!!! - Mine is not working
> 100 % I am struggling to get the X display on my  Hauppage cards TV
> out !!!! So at the moment its not connected to my tv I might have to
> go the route of using my graphics card TV out instead.
> 
> Good Luck
> 
> Trev
> 
The card is working fine under windows. I am running ubuntu 8.04 and I
installed the mythtv package from the repositories.

In the backupend setup the card is shown as Analog V4L capture card -
Video device /dev/video) - Probed info Unknown/Generic [saa7134], and it
found this on its own, but the System Status still shows "Tuner 1 is
unavailable", while the backend log file includes the following:

Starting up as the master server.
2008-08-25 17:15:18.894 TVRec(1) Error: Problem finding starting
channel, setting to default of '3'.
2008-08-25 17:15:18.896 ChannelBase(1) Error: InitializeInputs(): 
			Could not get inputs for the capturecard.
			Perhaps you have forgotten to bind video
			sources to your card's inputs?
ERROR: no valid capture cards are defined in the database.
Perhaps you should read the installation instructions?

In fact I've read the installation instructions until I can recite them
by heart!
I'm rapidly approaching my wit's end.

Regards

Robert