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

[Juha]

Hi there Nico,

Yes, I'm running VDR, and the channel is shown in my tv just fine. Tvtime
shows the channel in a window if I start it. So, that shouldn't be the
problem. Still, I get the ouput described in my original post when I try
it with mplayer. Any ideas?

Juha

Nico said:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> 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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