• Kino
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  • Registered: 2010-07-29
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Topic: vlc not recording pvr

Hi again,

Trying to record tv via vlc gives the following message:

VLC media player 1.1.0 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
[0x99bb43c] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
[0x99c8fd4] mux_ps mux: Open
[0x99c94d4] pvr access error: Cannot open device /dev/video0 (No such device or address).
[0x99c1e14] main input error: open of `pvr://' failed: (null)
[0x99c1e14] main input error: Your input can't be opened
[0x99c1e14] main input error: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'pvr://'. Check the log for details.
[0x99c8fd4] mux_ps mux: Close

how do I connect to the device?

Thanks.

  • Registered: 2010-04-05
  • Posts: 4

Re: vlc not recording pvr

I use a pvr500 and might suggest you look into ivtv utils, I used ivtv-tune to change channel , then cat /dev/video0>my-test.mpg , this will continue writing whats coming off /dev/video0 until you stop it with ctrl+c.
You can open that mpg in vlc, just some of the troubleshooting i went through setting up mythtv. hope this helps you out.
Might also want to lsmod and see if there are modules loaded for it, and " less /var/log/syslog|grep ivtv " see if anything about the drivers loading there should the cat to mpg get you no where.