On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 20:13, Dale Cooper wrote:
> Juha Pahkala wrote:
> > > Ah, one thing I forgot to mention yesterday. I can't play TV like
> > > "mplayer dvb://<channel>". This is what Freevo calls when you want to
> > > watch TV.
> > >
> > > So, is there something wrong with the system setup - should DVB:// be
> > > available even with budget card?
> > > Or should I just dig in Freevo to call something else to watch TV?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dale
> > >
> > You need a valid channels.conf file in you .mplayer directory. If you
> > don't have one yet, you can use the 'scan' utility from dvb-utils package
> > to make one. You can see more information on setting up a dvb card under
> > linux eg. from http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html
> >
> >
> That's what I already have. I do have channels.conf. But can't access
> "dvb://", maplyer says that URL has no hostname part. Of course it has
> not.
>
> And yes, I do have mplayer compiled with DVB support.....
>
> Thx for the link, will investigate.
> > By the way, did you find information somewhere on using a dvb card under
> > freevo. I've been waiting for freevo to support one, but it seems that
> > there are various ways it can be made to work at least somewhat with some
> > effort. How did you manage to do it?
> >
> I did not :(
>
> I can see the TV from console, using "tzap + mplayer /dev/*" but not
> using "mplayer dvb://" and neither from freevo.
>
> Cheers,
> Dale
Are you adding a channel to 'mplayer dvb://[channel]' ?
tzap selects a channel and gets the ball rolling for mplayer to just
display it. Running mplayer by itself requires a channel to be defined.
I use the following in freevo to watch DVB;
** These lines in TV-SETTINGS
TV_SETTINGS = '%s television %s %s' % (CONF.tv, CONF.chanlist,
TV_DEVICE)
TV_CHANNEL_PROG = './chchan %(channel)s %(norm)s %(freqtable)s'
TV_RECORDFILE_MASK = '%%m-%%d %%H-%%M %(progname)s - %(title)s'
TV_RECORDFILE_SUFFIX = '.ts'
VCR_AUDIO = (':adevice=%s' % AUDIO_DEVICE +
':audiorate=32000' +
'buffersize=64')
TV_REC_SIZE = (768, 576)
TV_VIEW_SIZE = (768, 576)
VCR_CMD = CONF.mplayer + ' -dumpstream -dumpfile %(filename)s
"dvb://%(channel)s"'
VIDEO_GROUPS[0].group_type = 'dvb'
TV_CHANNELS = [('free.Perth.2HD.d1.com.au', 'ABC HDTV', 'ABC
HDTV'), # this section really depends on your channels.. one line for
each channel.
***This line added to mplayer_args
'dvb' : '-vf pp=de/fd',
Hope this is of some assistance, and isnt something obvious that you
have already tried. I apologise if this is the case.
-Stygen
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