>I am another Freevo user with a WinTV PVR card, using the IVTV driver. After >asking Karee in private for some help (which I kindly have been given), I now >updated the Wiki a bit. However, there are a lot of questions that still >exist, many of which are "does XXX work at all?"-questions.
>- From searching freevo-users I see that quite some people use Freevo with the >IVTV driver, so I hope there are answers to the following questions (I will >put them in the Wiki if I find an appropriate place, maybe there should be a >separate IVTV-page): >- - Is it possible to run Freevo using IVTV card's TV-out? (This is totally >irrelevant for me, but an unanswered question of F. Scholz: >http://www.mail-archive.com/freevo-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg051 26.html ) Go here (http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=TvOutHowto). This is a how-to about using the TV-Out as a standard framebuffer device for X. Once you get X working with this framebuffer device freevo works with it just like any other X display. >- - Watching TV is only started by selecting a channel from the TV guide, right? >Then is it possible to use the Ch+/Ch- keys to change the channel without >returning to the Guide? (Freevo receives the IR events and could issue the >IOCTLs, no?) BTW: Since "STOP" leads from TV mode to the guide, maybe PLAY >should lead back, too? (Instead of only SELECT) You can use the Ch+/Ch- keys to change the channel IF you have freevo's lircrc setup to map remote buttons to those functions. I have had problems with this in the past however because the MPEG stream usually gets interrupted long enough for mplayer's buffer to run out and cause it to drop you back to the guide. I mainly use the tv tuner for recording programs and not watching live TV and have not really played with this much on the recent drivers >= 0.9. I believe at one point I tempered this problem by giving mplayer at least and 8MB buffer but this means when you start watching a new channel you sit there for several seconds waiting for the stream to start playing. >- - Concerning PVR/time-shift features: On my computer, I can press space to >pause the program, but the pause button on my remote does not work? Worse, >trying to rewind/fast forward always jumps to the live TV again. Does this >work "properly" for others? I may be mistaken but last time I tried getting this working it required an external program named (mp1e) that encoded an MPEG1 ring buffer accessible though a pipe that mplayer would play back from. I believe this worked with regular tv tuner cards that provide raw uncompressed video streams, unlike the IVTV cards that directly supply an MPEG stream. Unfortunately I am starting a new job next week and don't believ I will have the time to play with getting this working anytime soon now that my interest in this feature has been piqued. >Also, I have a lot of problems with recording shows, but I only few of them >might be IVTV related. I will post that separately after more research. I had a problem recording shows with early versions of the IVTV drivers that would hang after only a few minutes of recording. I modified the IVTV record plugin to use mencoder to read and transcode the stream and this worked for the older drivers. I have not had this problem with the lastest drivers however, the only problem I occasionally experience is sometimes shows do not record if they are set to be recorded one right after another. I have seen quite a bit of discussion related to this problem on this mailing list but have not seen if a definite soloution has been mad for this yet. - Karee Brown ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
