Hello all. I've been using TVTime for quite some time in my old computer. I recently upgraded to a newer computer and installed the TV tuner card into it before installing Koala 9.10. Unfortunately, TVTime does not work now.

Computer is a Dell Optiplex 270 with onboard video - Intel Extreme.

lspci shows:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)

Error message from TVTime:

Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/oem/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.

What should I do now?

Thanks~

Your problem is due to the video driver being reworked and suffering regression. See here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...el/+bug/469700

Try "nomodeset" in the kopt= line in /boot/grub/grub.conf

Er, that's menu.lst

thanks, I'm still not 100% sure about how to edit stuff like this - here's what I did:

first I had to figure out how to edit menu.lst by reading this:

[No Xv support for Intel 82852/855GM video chips with KMS

When using the default kernel-mode-setting (KMS) option in Ubuntu 9.10, users with Intel 82852/855GM cards will find that they are unable to use the Xv extension for playing videos. This may show up as high CPU usage or stuttering during video playback, or a failure to play videos at all with some applications. As a workaround, users can add the option nomodeset to the kernel boot options in the grub config (for GRUB 2: edit /etc/default/grub and add nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, then run sudo update-grub; for GRUB 1: edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add nomodeset to the line beginning with # kopt=, then run sudo update-grub), to disable the use of KMS. (395932) ]

(found it here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/910)

so then I tried sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst but the screen came up blank.
So next I tried sudo gedit /etc/default/grub and I found the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
so I tried making it look like:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""nomodeset - and then tried
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=nomodeset - and then tried
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset" - each time running sudo update-grub afterwards and attempting to run TV Time but still came up with the same error message.

:-(

As you can see, I really don't know what I am doing. (Although I am trying to learn!)

Its a bug, I had to plug a video card on my to use TVtime, fortunally for me, it was not a laptop.

Do you think it's a bug with TV Time or Ubuntu 9.10? I still have my 9.04 disc...

Bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs!

Zapping crashed with a segmentation fault,
MythTV can't scan for channels (which I have read is a bug with Ubuntu 9.10 - if someone knows how to get it to work, please let me know.)

For now the quick 'n easy solution for me is to switch to Xawtv. Got it working right away, but at first could not get the sound to work properly. What I had to do was open alsamixer in a terminal and raise the Line volume.

The only catch with Xawtv is that there are a bunch of settings that need to be set up in the config file, and I have no idea how to do that. The man pages, like most Linux documentation I have come across, expect the reader to already know how to do certain things. But for now, at least I can watch tv at the desired volume.

To get MythTV scan channal, you will have to add a XML-TV source. If you are in north america, use the schedule direct 7 day demo. It's a bug/regression to, but this one is not related to Intel graphics.

If you are using a saa7134 card, and it seem to be the case after seeing your bug list and the fact that you use your line-in as audio, be warned that you should not use line-in, but fork the audio using sox to a separated virtual sound card or you will have delayed audio.

MythTV will work perfectly once plugged with the XML-tv source, it is the best option.

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If you changed the hardware (copied an existing installation on a different machine), it might just need to be reconfigured. You could do that manually, or you could just purge the application (and it's configuration files) and re-install.

# dpkg --purge --force-all <package>
# apt-get install <package>

Probably some sudo variant for *buntu types. I'm on debian.

Or just try tvtime-configure or other options. I generally use tvtime to setup my channels and modes. But if I'm just watching TV, I use an mplayer named pipes to pipe back to mplayer, so that I can use -vf pp=al and other adjustments to make things more visable. I use the same method to ffmpeg to accomplish the recording side of things. But mainly because mencoder doesn't handle STEREO audio for TV input. ffmpeg has a bit better audio options. But to each their own, many means to an end.

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xawtv is really old, so that's the cause of the tangled config.

Karmic uses grub 2, so /etc/default/grub is correct. To insert the nomodeset kernel option, you

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset"

run sudo update-grub

and

REBOOT

to put the new kernel option in effect.

dmesg | grep nomodeset

should confirm the kernel option went in (reads the kernel ring buffer log.)

On Karmic, I have taken to using Kaffeine. The KDE media player has a dvb-c integrated channel scanner. It doesn't work with V4L. The 1.0 pre-2 version won't go any higher than 480i, either.

You can also try Me-TV. My experience with it was poor with dvb-c- it would seg fault if it hit an encrypted channel. It has no channel scanner, so you get to play with channels.conf. But it might be OK with analog Video For Linux (V4L analog) use.

tvtime is likely OK after the kernel option hack.

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WOW THANKS for all the input!

Elv-13: I will research how to add XML-TV source. I have been using the line-in with no problems using TV Time in the past, however I realize that may not matter if I'm using MythTV. Looks like I have Sox already, but it relies completely on the command line to configure so that may take some time for me to figure out.

Shadow-7: This was a fresh install. I'll have to read up more on mplayer.

Ktindle: I'll try that again and reboot this time. :-)

Well well well...

Ktindle, you were correct. After I changed that line again and REBOOTed, TV Time works again! Yahoo!!!

Elv-13 - I signed up for the 7 day trial at schedules direct, but am unsure of how to proceed from here.

Just go in mythTV backend setup and setup the 3 input things (Capture Cards, Video Sources and Input Connections) (yes, its a little complicated, but when you scale the mythTV config up with many frontend and many TV-card, it make some sense). The second one will ask your schedule direct username and password, it will take care of the rest. Follow this:
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html

Once correctly installed, mythtv is great, and even more with an iPhone/iPodTouch as remote with MyMote and some TVs plugged on it.

Elv13 ~ I tried MythTV again, following the instructions on the howto you posted. Previously I had been following a similar one here:
http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_ubuntu.php

But still the same situation exits. The "scan for channels" button is greyed out, "fetch for channels" does nothing, and the "starting channel" is stuck on "please add channels to this source".

Thanks very much for your time; I hope to someday be able to use MythTV - but right now it's not a priority for me. I'm just happy TV Time is working like it used to.

Cheers

Have you entered your schedule direct password then pressed scan?