[MPlayer-users] Unable to watch TV with mplayer, is this supported?

[Nico]

I forgot to ask it sooner:  did you run xawtv or VDR to tune the 
channel, then run mplayer to see the stream?

juhis at trinity.is-a-geek.com wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>Hi there,
>
>I have a Siemens premium dvb-c card with an onboard mpeg decoder. I've
>tried to read the videostream that the dvb card mpeg decoder produces to
>the v4l device with mplayer option tv:// but I can't seem to get it to
>work. Does this make any sense, ie. should/could this work. I read the
>documentation on tv watching and tried the example there, and below is
>the output of the command.
>
>I know that at least tvtime and xawtv do support tv watching with dvb
>cards, and as far as I understand, mplayer too supports this at least with
>analog cards, so in theory, this should be possible. If it isn't supported
>yet, what do you think, how big a job would it be to support this in
>mplayer. If I were to try to add support for this, where should I start?
>My programming skills are seriously limited, but I guess this could be
>some sort of parameter tuning, since the basic infrastructure is there as
>far as can tell.
>
>Thanks for any information,
>
>Juha
>____________________________________________________________________
>
>bash:~# mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc
>rawi420 tv://
>MPlayer 1.0pre2-3.2.3 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
>
>CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner 515.8 MHz (Family:
>6, Step
>ping: 3)
>Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
>CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
>Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
>
>Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or
>directo
>ry
>Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
>Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
>'/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No
>such file or directory
>Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
>'/usr/local/etc/mplayer/c
>odecs.conf': No such file or directory
>Using built-in default codecs.conf
>font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
>font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
>Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
>Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or
>director
>y
>Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such
>file or
>directory
>Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
>
>Playing tv://
>TV detected! ;-)
>Selected driver: v4l
> name: Video 4 Linux input
> author: Alex Beregszaszi
> comment: under development
>Selected device: DVB Board
> Capabilites: capture tuner overlay clipping frameram scales
> Device type: 235
> Supported sizes: 32x32 => 768x576
> Inputs: 1
>  0: DVB: tuner audio tv camera  (tuner:1, norm:ntsc)
>Card reports an unknown audio mode !
>Trying two channel audio. Use forcechan to override.
>Card reports an unknown audio mode !
>Trying two channel audio. Use forcechan to override.
>Using input 'DVB'
>ioctl get tuner failed: Invalid argument
>Tuner isn't capable to set norm!
>Error: Cannot set norm!
>
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