Many thanks TC Wan & Jesper for your tips, I tried
this before with mplayer and tvtime with no luck, but
I tried it again and it worked great with the xawtv
plugin, which is a step in the right direction.
As the plugin is quite experiemental thou (changing
channel is a bit slow and dodgy) and I want to be able
to record, I still need to have it configured for
mplayer (mencoder). Actually, I found in the end that
gentoo's emerge system hadn't configured mplayer with
v4l2 support, so did that and got freevo as far as
bringing up an untuned screen with mplayer set for tv.
Reading up on mplayer I found that it requires
frequencies for tv mode, so changed my config to
include frequencies (unfortunately I'm at work at the
moment and my ssh tunnel to home seems to have failed,
so I can't paste). That worked, but i don't seem to be
able to control mplayer when it's running as tv, all
of the keys are mapped strangely (c and v don't change
channel). I figure that these are mplayer's controls.
Interestingly when I activated the tvtime plugin I
realised that freevo updates my
$HOME/.tvtime/tvtime.xml file each time it loads and
uses the frequency table information. So tvtime works
now using the frequencies, and displays some of the
xmltv info on the screen when you change channel. My
next problem really is figuring out how to fine tune
the channels using frequencies, as fine tuning in
xawtv and tvtime don't seem to write their configs
using frequencies. Also, tvtime is passed the -I 768
parameter when it loads, meaning that it displays in
768x576. I can change freevo to run in this res, but
my x server (using nv driver) will only allow me to
run it in 800x600 (too big) or 640x480 (too small).
Is there any help available online for configuring
freevo with tvtime? There's no real reference to it in
wiki other than activation of the plugin.
Many thanks for your help
Steven
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