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adrian89987:
OS: Ubuntu 6.10-i386
Motherboard: stock motherboard that came with a compaq presario 8000, Havn't been able to find any info on the exact type
Videocard: Geforce fx5700LE
Tv tuner: Wintv-PVR usb2

I successfully installed Linux MCE following all of the installation instructions as well as the basic process taken in the What to expect page.
The installation instructions made it seem like this tv tuner should work pretty much right away.
When I plug in the tuner it says that the drivers are installed and all, I have signed up with Data Direct to send all of my cable channels and such
but when I try and run the TV under media, myth tv starts and then it just goes black.
I'm guessing this is mythtv crashing?

I'm a fairly big linux noob so I'm not quite sure what to check for to make sure the tuner was actually installed correctly and that mythtv is working correctly, nor do I have much of an idea on how to figure out why mythtv would be crashing if that is what is happening.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated...tell me if there is any other info that I need to provide

sharlee_angelo:
please provide some messages from mythtv log.

adrian89987:
where do i find the mythtv log
i tried but couldn't seem to find it
thanks

sharlee_angelo:
/var/log/pluto

adrian89987:
ok here is what the mythbackend.log told me:

--- Code: ---2007-04-14 15:25:32.811 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-04-14 15:25:33.994 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-04-14 15:25:34.096 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2007-04-14 15:25:34.450 Current Schema Version: 1160
Running as a slave backend.
2007-04-14 15:25:35.662 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-04-14 15:25:35.675 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2007-04-14 15:25:35.771 EITHelper: localtime offset -4:00:00
2007-04-14 15:25:35.900 New DB connection, total: 3
2007-04-14 15:25:35.931 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2007-04-14 15:25:36.249 EITHelper: localtime offset -4:00:00
2007-04-14 15:25:36.371 EITHelper: localtime offset -4:00:00
2007-04-14 15:25:36.376 TVRec(3) Error: Problem finding starting channel, setting to default of '3'.
2007-04-14 15:25:36.378 ChannelBase(3) Error: InitializeInputs():
Could not get inputs for the capturecard.
Perhaps you have forgotten to bind video
sources to your card's inputs?

--- End code ---


and this is what the log in the pluto folder told me:

--- Code: ---========== NEW LOG SECTION ==========
1 04/14/07 15:55:30 24 (spawning-device) Starting... 2
1 04/14/07 15:55:30 24 (spawning-device) Found ./MythTV_Player
05 04/14/07 15:56:39.737 I failed to kill the application launched with name: mythfrontend <0xb69daba0>
== ATTEMPT FRESH START ==
1 04/14/07 16:00:51 Spawn_Device.sh 24 (spawning-device) 17909 Dev: 24; Already Running list: 27,21,38,15,17,16,19,22,24,20,26,28,
1 04/14/07 16:00:51 Spawn_Device.sh 24 (spawning-device) 17909 Device 24 was marked as 'running'. Not starting
1 04/14/07 16:00:51 Spawn_Device.sh 24 (spawning-device) 17909 Dev: 24; Exiting because not starting
05 04/14/07 16:09:11.553 Going to send command jump livetv <0xb79dcba0>
Return code: 139
3 04/14/07 16:09:43 24 (spawning-device) Device died... count=2/50 dev=24
Sat Apr 14 16:09:43 EDT 2007 died
========== NEW LOG SECTION ==========
1 04/14/07 16:09:59 24 (spawning-device) Starting... 3
1 04/14/07 16:10:00 24 (spawning-device) Found ./MythTV_Player
05 04/14/07 16:12:40.362 I failed to kill the application launched with name: mythfrontend <0xb6a12ba0>

--- End code ---

I have no clue as to what to make of this
but...i know that the tv tuner is working with my computer since it will play it's default channel within mplayer

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