video input problem

[bradlewa]

I ended up installing Sage on Ubuntu. I have all the dependencies and ivtv (with 350 tv out) configured properly. The Sage server is up and running. But now I've hit a wall. As far as I know, using Linux on a non-Gentoo distro, I have to run the Sage Client (sageclient.sh) in order to have the OSD show up. When I started the client for the first time, I proceeded with the configuration wizard. Everything is fine until I have to define the video input devices (tv tuner) - the program gets stuck on "Please wait for video preview to load." I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or not. I've made sure that the tuner card is receiving a signal via the command line and playing back in mplayer. Could it be something with port forwarding or the ports open/closed on my router? I'm using the same computer as the server and client, so it shouldn't be a network problem, but I just don't know. Any help would be appreciated.

BB

[gplasky]

Ignore that there is nothing in the preview window and just keep going and finish the config. Reboot and everything should work.

Gerry

[vanhln]

Did you find an answer bradlewa? I have the same problem using Ubuntu 6.10. I'm converting from a Windows setup that worked (350 card is good), so it must be something with Ubuntu...

I can't get Gerry's suggestion of bypassing this and to continue with setup. The only thing I can do is close the client and start again.

I'm successfully able to capture a test video by this command:
cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg

and can play it back with mplayer.....

[_Demo_]

You should try to run ldd * in the SageTV client directory. This will let you know about missing dependencies.

_Demo_

[vanhln]

Thanks, I'll give that a try...

[vanhln]

When I run ldd in the client directory, it tells me there are three files not found: libjawt.so, libCg.so and libCgGL.so.

libjawt.so seems to be related to java and might the other two be Nvidia files???

I can't find much info on this.

Thanks.