Chad Robinson wrote:
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.
Freevo has the capacity to control an ivtv device itself (tuner channel, input, bitrate, codec, etc) and if you were doing it the "right" way you may be able to watch tv as well. ;)
Yes, but it isn't working and I'm spending too much time trying to figure out why. It gets all sorts of IOCTL errors, and it doesn't exactly log much information regarding why this is. It can't change the channel, it can't set the source, and it certainly doesn't display anything. In fact, most of the time it crashes without further ado.
That's why I want a manual command. All I have to do is "mplayer /dev/video0" - why try to make this thing all complex? There's something to be said for simplicity.
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
I assume you're using freevo 1.4.x and there aren't any hooks for changing channels there.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I'm using the CVS as of, oh, last Friday I think was my last update.
Is there some way I can override this? I don't wan't to use tvtime.
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).
Neither mplayer (directly) or tvtime work with ivtv. There is a tv plugin (tv.ivtv_basic_tv) that you can try, in which freevo sets up the device and changes channels, using mplayer to read fro /dev/videoX. There should be more info in the docs.
Doesn't work, because of the problems specified above. And the docs are about a paragraph suggesting that this might work, and you're on your own. I'd write them up myself if I understood this but I don't. It never even tries to call Mplayer, it just dies when it tries to change the channel. Maybe I should be hacking up the ivtv plugin to just call ptune.pl? That changes the channel just fine...
Regards, Chad
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