Florian Demmer wrote:thanks... my pvr250/pal needs input 4 and it works! :)
just tried the snapshot after using 1.4.1 before, and i see there is no ivtv_basic_tv anymore (and recording with recordserver results in a black mpeg file). how is that supposed to work now/in future releases?
Hi, some things in CVS have changed WRT tv and recording. The tv.ivtv_basic_tv plugin has been removed and the tv.mplayer plugin has been updated to support ivtv. To get recording and tv working you will need to modify the default VIDEO_GROUPS config item for ivtv. I will add docs to the wiki soon about this. You will probably need something similar to the following in yout local_conf.py:
VIDEO_GROUPS = [ VideoGroup(vdev='/dev/video0', adev=None, input_type='tuner', input_num=4, tuner_norm='NTSC', tuner_chanlist='us-cable', desc='Cable', group_type='ivtv', recordable=True), ]
VIDEO_GROUPS = [ VideoGroup(vdev='/dev/video0', adev=None, input_type='tuner', input_num=4, tuner_norm='PAL', tuner_chanlist='europe-west', desc='Cable', group_type='ivtv', recordable=True), ]
i discoverd another problem: when i try to watch tv (or record) i get an error that args is too short (in line 172 tv/plugins/mplayer.py: "mpl = '--prio=%s %s -vo %s%s -fs %s -slave %s' % args") ... i think MPLAYER_ARGS_DEF was forgotten in line 122:
it works with the following (and my mplayer options are nicely applied):
# Build the MPlayer command
args = (config.MPLAYER_NICE, config.MPLAYER_CMD, config.MPLAYER_VO_DEV,
config.MPLAYER_VO_DEV_OPTS, config.MPLAYER_ARGS_DEF)
Note the input_num=4 part. It defaults to 0 which is not the norm for tuner on ivtv. Aubin mentioned we shouldn't specify a default and use whatever the card is already using which I agree with (and forgot to impliment :P).
If you need more info on VIDEO_GROUPS please search the lists. I still mean to ad info to the wiki.
-Rob
another thing:
maybe add TV_RECORD_PADDING and TV_RECORDFILE_MASK to the local_conf.py.example, would have saved me some time searching for the right config var name ;)
keep up the _great_ work Flo
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