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tvtime and Pinnacle PCTV 72e

DISCUSSION Caterpillar 1 participant 2 messages Feb 20, 2014 Media (V4L/DVB)

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Hi. I am writing to you because I am helping a Fedora user that has problems using tvtime with its Pinnacle Systems, Inc. PCTV 72e [DiBcom DiB7000PC]
Before he asked for my help, the user said he managed to work the card with its webcam, but not with the DBV-T Pinnacle card (USB). He says also to have a PCI DVB-S card installed in the system.

by default settings, if he executes tvtime from bash, he will get

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$ tvtime
Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/italman71/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
videoinput: Cannot open capture device /dev/device0: File o directory non esistente
mixer: find error: Successo
mixer: Can't open mixer default, mixer volume and mute unavailable.
mixer: Can't open device default/Line, mixer volume and mute unavailable.
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but as you can see from ls /dev/ ( http://pastebin.com/vGYaD1mY ) there is not a |/dev/device0 but other interesting devices like video0, video1, v4l, dvb

He did some unsuccessfull tries, for example
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$ tvtime --device /dev/video1
Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/italman71/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
mixer: find error: Successo
mixer: Can't open mixer default, mixer volume and mute unavailable.
mixer: Can't open device default/Line, mixer volume and mute unavailable.
Thank you for using tvtime.
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it gave to the user a black screen, so I told him to try video0, but it seemed to be the output of computer webcam

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||tvtime --device /dev/video0

Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/italman71/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
videoinput: Driver won't tell us its norm: ioctl non appropriata per il device
videoinput: Can't get tuner info: ioctl non appropriata per il device

Your capture card driver: uvcvideo [UVC Camera (046d:081d)/usb-0000:00:12.2-1/200192] does not support full size studio-quality images required by tvtime. This is true for many low-quality webcams. Please select a
different video device for tvtime to use with the command line
option --device.

mixer: find error: Successo
mixer: Can't open mixer default, mixer volume and mute unavailable.
mixer: Can't open device default/Line, mixer volume and mute unavailable. Thank you for using tvtime
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At this point I don't know what I can do to manage to work the device with tvtime. Do you have any suggestions? Downhere you can find a lot of useful infos collected from the system

||||lspci http://pastebin.com/Q2bdZiSq| 
|ls /dev/ http://pastebin.com/vGYaD1mY
lsusb http://pastebin.com/gFSKZcME
lsmod http://pastebin.com/QpYUai90tree /dev/dvb http://pastebin.com/Sf0vewWc
dmesg|grep DiBhttp://pastebin.com/a7M0HwRA
dmesg|grep Pinnacle http://pastebin.com/zzDcKfN4
dmesg|tail http://pastebin.com/gsimDTAd

Thank you for your time