[ILUG] WinTv USB + TvTime Issues

Ruairi Newman ruairi at tech-mad.org
Mon Oct 18 16:36:13 IST 2004


On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 16:27, Ronan Barrett wrote:
> Hi,
> I cannot seem to be able to get tvtime or xawtv to recognise my USB
> based Tv Card. I have googled but to no avail. I am using Fedora Core 2
> with all the latest yum patches (further details below). Can anyone shed
> some light on this for me?
> xawtv produces the following error...
> 
> [root at zag XX]# xawtv
> This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.8-1.521)
> can't open /dev/video0: No such device
> v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
> v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
> v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
> no video grabber device available

Well the question is, is there a device file in /dev corresponding to to
your TV card?  It may be that once you identify it and symlink it to
/dev/video0 everything will work fine.

I can't suggest what this hypothetical device file may be called due to
my distinct lack of PCTV experience, but I presume Google can haelp you
out here.

Regards,

Ruairí

P.S.  As it's a USB device, I'd look in /dev/usb if it exists.


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