FAQ

I have audio but no video with an analog TV device, why?
In most cases the answer is simple. You have an analog device without a hardware MPEG2 encoder. This devices will work with tvtime or kdetv but not with TV-Viewer. Support is not planned.

Video device nodes do always get changed when I reboot my machine
This issue occurs especially when you have a webcam attached to your computer. People often recognize the TV-Card sometimes uses /dev/video0 and sometimes /dev/video1 If your using a device that is controlled by the ivtv driver, the solution is simple. Open the file modprobe.conf and add the following line options ivtv ivtv_first_minor=1 This prevents the system to attach the TV-Card to the video device node 0. This means this device node is free for a webcam or whatever. This may also work with the cx18 and pvrusb2 but most likely not with cx88-blackbird. An alternative might be to use UDEV rules.

Running the configure script I get syntax errors or complains about a missing file
First thing happens if you try to run the TCL script as shell script. So never try something like $ sh ./configure.tcl because it can not work. The second issue appears if do not have installed Tcl/Tk. You may see a message like $ ./configure.tcl /usr/bin/env: tclsh: file or directory not found Solution is simple, install Tcl/Tk >= 8.5

I have installed Tcl / Tk version 8.5, still the installer complains
This happens if you have installed more than one version of Tcl / Tk. in this case you have to make sure, the Symlinks "/usr/bin/wish" and "/usr/bin/tclsh" point at least on version 8.5. Debian / *buntu users may use update alternatives to solve this problem % update-alternatives --config wish % update-alternatives --config tclsh

An instance of TV-Viewer is already running.
In some circumstance this might happen due to a forcible reboot of the OS. If u are sure, that there is no running instance, you can delete the lockfile and start tv-viewer afterwards. You can check if tv-viewer is running by using "ps ax | grep tv-viewer". If the output is empty or no instance running, open a console or terminal and change directory to your tv-viewer home f.e.: (No superuser privilegies are required). cd /home/USER/.tv-viewer/tmp List directory contents and look for the broken symlink named "lockfile.tmp": ls Remove the lockfile: rm lockfile.tmp Now you are able to start tv-viewer again.

THIS WAS IDENTIFIED AS BUG (2994860) AND HAS BEEN FIXED IN VERSION 0.8.1.1 r86