When I press the Watch Live TV button I get a black screen for about 30 seconds, then it kicks me back out to the main menu. I have a DISH network receiver hooked up to the SVIDEO input of my PVR-150 card. I can cat /dev/video0 to a mpeg file, copy it to my windows machine and play it back just fine (picture and sound are great). What is going on? Here is the tail end of my mythbackend.log file:

2006-03-21 20:22:54.469 Running HouseKeeping
2006-03-21 20:25:57.219 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-03-21 20:25:57.221 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-03-21 20:25:57.229 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-03-21 20:25:57.578 Unknown video codec
2006-03-21 20:25:57.583 Please go into the TV Settings, Recording Profiles and
2006-03-21 20:25:57.585 setup the four 'Software Encoders' profiles.
2006-03-21 20:25:57.587 Assuming RTjpeg for now.
2006-03-21 20:25:57.589 NVR: Error, unknown audio codec
2006-03-21 20:25:57.609 NVR: Won't work with the streaming interface, falling back
VIDIOCGMBUF:: Invalid argument
2006-03-21 20:25:58.283 NVR(/dev/video0) Error: Reading VBI data
eno: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
2006-03-21 20:26:18.125 TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2006-03-21 20:26:18.132 Finished recording Judge Judy: channel 1002
2006-03-21 20:27:54.475 Running HouseKeeping

I don't understand the error message about setting up the software encoder profiles. I looked in the settings, and all four of them are there. Did I miss something? Anyone have any ideas? I can post more info if needed. Thanks in advance!

- Sean

Most likely something is wrong with your configuration in mythtv-setup.

BTW - Not an installation question. Cecil draws the line at "when the installer is finished". This may get nuked as a result. Stuff like this belongs under general or usage...

Nevermind, I figured it out after reading another post. I had the wrong capture setting in mythtv-setup. It needed to be set to Hardware mpeg2, and I had it set to something else.

[quote="sneeley"]Nevermind, I figured it out after reading another post. I had the wrong capture setting in mythtv-setup. It needed to be set to Hardware mpeg2, and I had it set to something else.[/quote]

Hi

I have same issue and can't find where to change to Hardware mpeg2 as you recommened either in front-end or back-end setup. Could you please shed some light?

See: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... leShooting
Especially: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... WatchingTV

Don't forget to follow the links that take you to pages describing how to check the log files, get back into mythtv-setup, ...