KVCR FAQ

In the Add window why can't I select a Channel?
I've configured the Channels but why won't KVCR choose the correct Channel?
How do I find out why KVCR isn't recording?
KVCR records when I choose record now but not when I choose in Advance, why?

In the Add window why can't I select a Channel?
You need to have configured the Channel definitions in XawTV first.

I've configured the Channels but why won't KVCR choose the correct Channel?
You must have the utility v4lctl installed, it's part of the XawTV suite but it is sometimes packaged separately. For Mandrake users it's in the xawtv-control package.

How do I find out why KVCR isn't recording?
For each recording KVCR writes a 3 line script and stores it in the scripts sub-directory of the video directory. Try running one of these and having a look at the output.

KVCR records when I choose record now but not when I choose in Advance, why?
To record programs in Advance, you must have the AT daemon installed and running and make sure that a non-interactive session has the required permissions to use the TV card and the sound card. Most modern distributions use PAM to control security and to set the permissions of system devices so they cannot be used by a non-interactive session. Therefore to use KVCR for in advance recordings, the file /etc/security/console.perms needs to be amended to allow any users who set Advance recordings to use the relevant devices. For example the following lines in my /etc/security/console.perms file have been changed:

<console>  0660 <sound>      0660 root.audio
<console>  0660 <v4l>        0660 root.audio

So any user with a console session that belongs to the group audio has read and write access to the and device groups (which are defined at the top of the file). For more information see the manual page for console.perms.