Rob Shortt wrote: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.
If you shared the error messages I could most certainly help you.
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.
Because there is a lot more to using ivtv than just reading from the device.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I'm using the CVS as of, oh, last Friday I think was my last update.
Ok, I must admit the tv configuration in CVS is more complicated and there is no difinative guide on how to get it working. The docs are more geared for the last stable release. I have been putting off writing docs for the new portions in hoping that we can make it simpler (perhaps with an xml/fxd config file). If I can spare an hour or so in the next couple days I will add a new section in the Wiki for VIDEO_GROUPS. Search the lists for VIDEO_GROUPS and you may find the answer. Also the tv.ivtv_basic_tv no longer exists in cvs and has been integrated into the tv.mplayer plugin.
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...
Again, "it just dies" doesn't help much. The ivtv plugin can change the channel just fine on its own but if you wish to use pltune be my guest.
-Rob
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