I have been trying to get live tv viewing working (with mplayer -- which I am about to give up on and try tvtime instead) but it seems to be fundamentally flawed, or I am missing something.
The fundamental problem is that mplayer "processes" the video rather than just overlaying it. I don't have a problem with this per se (as it makes playing tv just like playing any other video stream), but it does not seem that mplayer supports processing audio in the same manner, and it is expected that you just play the audio live through the mixer. Well, as anyone can see, this will be no end of a/v sync problems. You can't introduce delays in the video stream (as mplayer does when it reads from the tv card and outputs through it's video drivers) and not induce the same delays in the audio stream. Is this solution unworkable (and if so, what is our plan to correct it), or is there a big piece to this puzzle that I am missing? Is there some way to have mplayer read the audio from the device and delay it just as much as the video? Is my local configuration just screwed or does Freevo not use this method by default for viewing TV? b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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