tor, 27 01 2005 kl. 14:29 +0000, skrev Steven: > 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.
Mplayer works fine with channel numbers, it just need a chanlist argument. Also the v4l2 problem might explain why other things dont work, if they use v4l1. This is certainly the case for me. I have a Pinnacle PCTV Rave, accessible with the bttv driver, however both v4l and v4l2 apis are accessible. using v4l however denies access to the tuner part, and is extreemly slow. the v4l2 however is amazingly fast and low on resource consumption (running tv fullscreen in 720x576 requires less than 25% cpu on my Athlon 700..) Following line is sufficient for tv-watching with mplayer: mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:chanlist=europe- west:channel=6 you can change channels with h and k, upand down channel respectfully. Try that out :) I also have a nice mencoder command capable of recording fairly high- quality recordings on my somewhat low-end system, but get this working first :) > 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). I use the closed source nvidia driver as it gives slightly better framerates for dvd-playing and glx for games (My son loves to play games on the telly :) ), I use the custom modeline for [EMAIL PROTECTED] found in the wiki, which fit exactly to my screen. on top of freevo I use ratpoison window manager, which allow for hotkeys for terminals and other programs and auto resizes all applications to fullscreen, including tvtime, although I have not tested with freevo tvtime plugin... - Jesper -- PGP/GnuPG key available at http://www.control.aau.dk/~jsma00/pgpkey.txt
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