User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) With Hauppauge HVR-1600 card installed and cx18 firmware installed, TVtime reports: cx18:Invalid argument Cannot open capture device /dev/video0. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert Hauppauge HVR-1600 card. 2. Install Rawhide from boot.iso dated 8/17/2009. 3. Reboot to desktop. 4. Use Add/Remove Software to install cx18 firmware and TVtime. 5. Reboot. 6. Start TVtime 4. Select Install Firmware button. Actual Results: TVtime displays error message: cx18:Invalid argument Cannot open capture device /dev/video0. Expected Results: TVtime shows analog TV from HVR-1600.
This is not a cx18-firmware bug. Its either a kernel bug or a hal/udev/devicekit/whatever bug, if the device /dev/video0 is present, but can't be opened by a non-root user. You might also have better luck rebooting after installing the firmware, as perhaps the device permissions will be correct after you login with the firmware already in place, not sure, just a theory.
Also... does this device have a hardware mpeg2 encoder? If so, tvtime won't work with it, no matter what you do. At least, as far as I know, tvtime only supports raw video, it doesn't support devices with hardware encoders.
Device does indeed have a hardware mepg2 encoder, and is not supported by tvtime.