[mythtvnz] iTVC16 with MythBuntu does not detect card

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Worik Stanton <worik.stanton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just installed MythBuntu 11.04 and the card is not detected.
> What do I have to do to get the control centre to detect them?
>
> I have to cancel out of the "MythTV Backend Setup" language selection
> before I get any thing useful (the full screen application with "(1)
> General (2) Capture Cards..." menu).  I ran the "(2) Capture Cards" menu
> and entered /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 as capture cards.
>
> I run the "Mythbuntu Frontend Control Centre" and give it the primary
> backend role and the desktop frontend role.
>
> When I run MythTV Frontend it grizzels that it cannot contact the back
> end.  ps ax cannot find anything that looks like a backend.
>
>
> I am really not quite sure what to do
>
> ~$ lspci |grep -i TV
> 04:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
> 04:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)

Is this the problem with v4l1 being removed from recent kernels, and
rendering some cards inoperable with mythtv? If so, I believe the
latest mythbuntu packages are patched to fix it. Install mythbuntu
repos and update your system.

If that doesn't work, try mythbuntu 10.04