Am running a new install R5C7. Have PVR-350 & PVR-250 on master box. Defined a v4l capture card for a Logitect webcam pro 4000 usb camera. Defined a webcam source and a channel (103) for the camera. I can "watch TV" on the channel with no problem. I can even record live. However I can't set up a future manual recording on the webcam channel. Get the following error in mythbackend.log :

2006-11-15 08:36:48.480 TVRec(3): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2006-11-15 08:36:48.646 Channel(/dev/video2) Error: SetInputAndFormat(0, NTSC)
while setting format (v4l v2)
eno: Invalid argument (22)
2006-11-15 08:36:48.649 Channel(/dev/video2): SetInputAndFormat(0, NTSC)
Setting video mode with v4l version 1 worked
2006-11-15 08:36:48.655 Channel(/dev/video2)::SetColourAttribute(): failed to set controls, error: Invalid argument
2006-11-15 08:36:48.668 Channel(/dev/video2)::SetColourAttribute(): failed to query controls, error: Invalid argument
2006-11-15 08:36:48.681 Channel(/dev/video2)::Tune(): Error -1 while setting frequency (v2): Invalid argument
2006-11-15 08:36:48.683 TVRec(3) Error: Failed to set channel to 103. Reverting to kState_None
2006-11-15 08:36:48.698 TVRec(3): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2006-11-15 08:36:48.710 Finished recording Testit "Wed Nov 15 08:36:00 2006": channel 1076
2006-11-15 08:36:48.731 Started recording: Testit "Wed Nov 15 08:36:00 2006": channel 1076 on cardid 3, sourceid 5


no recording is made.


Have tried the "drop all capture cards and re define" recommendations.
Still can't define a recording session on the webcam channel.

I have other channels defined for the s-video inputs for the capture cards and do not have this issue.

not sure where to go from here.


Thanks

I think the problem is that it thinks that the channel has not been tuned. Set an external channel change command to /bin/true. This program will return a success status and myth will think that the channel has tuned externally.

Thanks. That worked!!

Strange entry in MythWeb for the size of the file. It always shows 10kb.

Still getting those other errors in the mythbackend.log but they don't seem to cause an issue.

2006-11-15 15:18:02.282 TVRec(3): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2006-11-15 15:18:02.449 Channel(/dev/video2) Error: SetInputAndFormat(0, NTSC)
while setting format (v4l v2)
eno: Invalid argument (22)
2006-11-15 15:18:02.452 Channel(/dev/video2): SetInputAndFormat(0, NTSC)
Setting video mode with v4l version 1 worked
2006-11-15 15:18:02.468 Channel(/dev/video2)::SetColourAttribute(): failed to set controls, error: Invalid argument
2006-11-15 15:18:02.487 Channel(/dev/video2)::SetColourAttribute(): failed to query controls, error: Invalid argument
2006-11-15 15:18:03.502 ret_pid(14540) child(14540) status(0x0)
2006-11-15 15:18:03.514 External Tuning program exited with no error
2006-11-15 15:18:03.631 Channel(/dev/video2)::SetColourAttribute(): failed to set controls, error: Invalid argument
2006-11-15 15:18:03.634 Channel(/dev/video2)::SetColourAttribute(): failed to query controls, error: Invalid argument
2006-11-15 15:18:03.665 Started recording: 103 (Webcam) "Wed Nov 15 15:18:00 2006": channel 1076 on cardid 3, sourceid 5
strange error flushing buffer ...
2006-11-15 15:18:39.916 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:18:39.920 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:18:44.987 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:18:44.992 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:18:45.300 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
2006-11-15 15:18:45.305 adding: mythtv as a remote file transfer
2006-11-15 15:18:49.444 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:18:49.451 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:18:51.520 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:18:51.526 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:19:03.268 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:19:03.271 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:19:05.131 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:19:05.137 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:21:15.308 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:21:15.313 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:21:19.088 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:21:19.093 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:21:36.628 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:21:36.632 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:21:43.719 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:21:43.730 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:21:49.832 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:21:49.836 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:22:03.803 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:22:03.808 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:22:12.109 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:22:12.113 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:22:18.747 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:22:18.751 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:22:30.356 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:22:30.360 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:22:33.285 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-11-15 15:22:33.291 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-11-15 15:23:00.424 TVRec(3): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2006-11-15 15:23:00.430 Finished recording 103 (Webcam) "Wed Nov 15 15:18:00 2006": channel 1076
2006-11-15 15:23:00.432 Reschedule requested for id 0.
2006-11-15 15:23:00.783 Finished recording 103 (Webcam) "Wed Nov 15 15:18:00 2006": channel 1076


Thanks again........!!