I used fuse to find the process hanging on to adapter0. It was mythtvbackend, yet "ps -A" didn't show the process. I killed it a couple more times until fuse came up empty. VLC worked after that. On 2/7/2012 11:59 AM, Yaron wrote: > Have you tried shutting down both mythfrontend and mythbackend in a > tidy way? > > On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Raymond Norton wrote: > >> You don't have to convince me of MythTV. I have used it for years and >> love it. However, I am not streaming just on a LAN, but across the >> Internet and VLC works perfectly for that. Once in a while, I do use >> myth streaming, but at the moment, I prefer the full functionality I >> get with VLC. >> >> Feel free to answer my original question :) >> >> >> >> >> On 2/7/2012 11:49 AM, Yaron wrote: >>> I hate to be pushing MythTV rather than offering a solution, but I'm >>> fairly sure Myth has a network RC interface. >>> >>> (Also I prefer to have one remote control for everything rather than >>> separate "portable devices" for each device). >>> >>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Raymond Norton wrote: >>> >>>> Right... Mythtv can stream live, but with VLC, I can stream live >>>> and change channels from any portable device, no remote needed :) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2/7/2012 11:40 AM, Yaron wrote: >>>>> MythTV can stream livetv... not sure about the channel changing. I >>>>> use a, what's it called... newfangled thing... remote control! (: >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Raymond Norton wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I'm streaming live TV using vlc and changing channels via an >>>>>> HTTP interface. I use mthtv for making and watching recordings. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 2/7/2012 10:58 AM, Yaron wrote: >>>>>>> Out of curiosity, why don't you just use MythTV to do the >>>>>>> streaming, too? You can tell it to use VLC as the video player. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Raymond Norton wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I use a box for both mythtv and streaming vlc. I need to kill >>>>>>>> mythtvbackend to make the dvb adapter available to vlc, which >>>>>>>> is not a problem. However, something has changed that I am not >>>>>>>> aware of and even though I killall myth, vlc says the dvb >>>>>>>> adapter is not available. Is there a way to issue a command >>>>>>>> that frees up the adapter, regardless of what is using it, or >>>>>>>> at least find the process that is using it? >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>>>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>>>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -Yaron >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -Yaron >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>> >>> >>> -Yaron >>> >>> -- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > -Yaron > > -- > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >