I am frustrating quite a bit these days!

My problem is that I bought myself a 350 card thinking it was good quality and easy to set up in Linux. No such luck I am afraid. First I tried getting it up on Ubuntu, but all I get is a black screen. Now I installed KnoppMyth and I still get a black screen when I click watch tv. Basically I found out:

xawtv on ubuntu works, starts and can tune channels. But the xawtv window is black, no tv output. But when I have tuned a channel (S4 or someting) and I run mplayer /dev/video0 then I see the channel. So the card works, and xawtv can tune channels but myth does not. Why xawtv does not show me the tv picture is a mystery so far for me.

On knoppmyth I tried to just follow the standard setup and in the end after I set up everythin I want to scan for channels. But the scan for channels button is dimmed and not available for scanning. Why? mythfilldatabase is a bit blurry for me, how does that work? I cannot see it scanning/tuning my channels, just downloading tv guide xml data.

In knoppmyth xawtv does not work at all, but mplayer can play /dev/video0, but untuned, ergo snow snow..

Everytime I click watch tv in myth the screen goes black and then the backend stopps. The log file errors are:

2005-09-30 10:50:17.558 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.02 match + 0.00 place
2005-09-30 10:50:17.562 Seem to be woken up by USER
2005-09-30 11:04:05.909 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-09-30 11:04:05.911 adding: box as a client (events: 0)
2005-09-30 11:04:05.926 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-09-30 11:04:05.928 adding: box as a client (events: 1)
2005-09-30 11:04:05.936 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-09-30 11:04:05.938 adding: box as a client (events: 0)
2005-09-30 11:04:05.945 ERROR opening file in ThreadedFileWriter.
/cache/cache/ringbuf1.nuv: No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong? Why can't I get an image from my tv card? dmesg looks great, mlayer on the dev works, must I choose output on the card somehow?

Please help me!

Hi,
Sorry to hear you are having so much trouble. I think most of the problems that you may run into are covered here on the forum but can be a bit daunting to find. One of the folks made a google tool just for the the forum to help.

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q ... as_qdr=all

There are a few settings that default doesn't seem to like. Go through all the settings and ensure they have the path correct. /myth/tv/ /myth/music/ /myth/gallery/ /cache/cache/ should cover most of them. Also tv out requires a few special tweaks so don't check the pvr-350 out yet, make it work to the monitor first.

Try the link and see if it doesn't help you find what you need. The folks here have been and still are very helpful however they (myself also) don't relish retyping the same answer multitimes. Give a look and see if you can maybe locate the information, try looking for "ringbuf" as a starter.

Have a great day
Mike