[Freevo-users] Manual TV viewing like VCR_CMD?

[Chad Robinson]

I use a PVR-250 card but had some trouble getting recording to work 
until I discovered VCR_CMD. Now I just use a simple shell script that 
calls ptune.pl, cats /dev/video0 to the specified file, sleeps for the 
given number of seconds, then kills the cat process. This works very 
well - so well that I really have no interest in whatever the "right" 
way happens to be.

Is there a similar facility for watching TV? If I could simply call 
ptune.pl to change channels, and just use "mplayer /dev/video0" to watch 
it, I could stop messing around trying to figure out how to get this 
going. MPlayer doesn't want to use the tv:// method because it gets 
ioctl errors talking directly to V4L/V4L2. But, since I don't need it 
to, it seems a waste to try to figure out why (not to mention I've tried 
and failed).

Is there some way I can override this? I don't wan't to use tvtime.

Thanks,
Chad


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