Hi Paul, you should try debugging the problem by following the instructions at https://live.gnome.org/DVBDaemon/Debugging Hopefully this will get you an idea what is going wrong. Regarding live TV, newer versions of GStreamer have a regression that causes live TV to not work [1]. Last bot not least I highly encourage you to update to the latest version 0.2.9. [1]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663756 -- Sebastian Pölsterl Am 26.05.2012 13:30, schrieb Paul Mason: > Hi, > > I've just installed Linux Mint 13 on a machine with a Hauppauge Nova-T > 500 DVB TV card. The machine itself was previously a Mythtv server and > worked well for years but now I'm re-purposing it as a desktop. I'd > still like to play and record TV programs from it occasionally and I'm > trying to use gnome-dvb-daemon for this. > > I've set up the device itself and am able to scan the channels > successfully. I can use the device with mplayer and vlc without any > problems. However when I try to use gnome-dvb-control to schedule a > recording, I can see the channels and the EPG, I can add a schedule and > at the correct time it creates a subdirectory under > $HOME/Videos/Recordings/{CHANNEL}/{DATE-TIME} and it appears to be > recording but there's just a 0-byte file: > > > <http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=103149#> > |paul@pmdesk ~/Videos/Recordings/ITV1/2012-5-26_11-26 $ ls -l > total 4 > -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 0 May 26 11:26 001.mpeg > -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 228 May 26 11:32 info.rec| > > > Similarly when I try to use totem with the gnome-dvb plugin to view TV > it gives me an error "location not found". > > It looks like some sort of permissions issue but I have all the > permissions I need when running vlc or mplayer. > > The version is 0.27-2. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > > -- > Paul Mason
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