On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 14:16, Aubin Paul wrote:
> You could just do "mplayer -cache 8192 /dev/video0"
> you don't need to do the 'cat' step.
I seem to be famous for my extraneous 'cat' calls. ;^) Thanks for that
tip.
> I found the cache absolutely necessary for bitrates higher than say,
> 2mbit.
> VCR_CMD=('/usr/bin/perl -X /usr/bin/record-ivtv --duration=%(seconds)s' +
> '--channel %(channel)s --directory='/' --directory-format='./' --output' +
> '%(filename)s.mpg'
This chokes on: '... --directory-format='./' ...' (invalid syntax) ???
Also, where did you find /usr/bin/record-ivtv ?
> and then activate the ivtv basic viewing plugin:
>
> (Note that this VCR_CMD is missing a lot of options, like bitrate etc,
> so you should add them to your tastes or make a config file)
>
> plugin.remove('tv.mplayer')
> plugin.activate('tv.ivtv_basic_tv')
No need to re-activate tv.mplayer?
> I also enabled the cache for mplayer's TV viewer by setting
>
> 'tv' : 'cache 8192 -framedrop',
>
> in MPLAYER_ARGS
>
> After that, everything worked. I was actually pretty happy with how
> easily the card worked inside Freevo. I think there are some other
> plugins being worked on intermittently, but these options work for day
> to day use until they're done.
I'll get there...one day.
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