On Wed, 14 March, 2007 3:53 am, Tom Weichmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:22, Duncan Webb wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 13 March, 2007 3:09 am, Tom Weichmann wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday 12 March 2007 02:01, Duncan Webb wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 12 March, 2007 5:46 am, Tom Weichmann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> After an upgrade from SuSE 10.0 to 10.2, I have got some
>>>>> wierdness with mplayer.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I just do a 'mplayer /dev/video0'
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I get pretty good video., but if I use freevo, it changes the 4:3
>>>>>  signal to something that looks like 16:0 and skips a lot.  Once
>>>>> I
>>>>> close sown freeo and do a 'mplayer /dev/video0' again, the ourput
>>>>> looks like the freevo output, 16:9ish and choppy.  Anyone have
>>>>> any ideas what might be causing this?
>>>>
>>>> Use http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/TroubleShooting to
>>>> get the mplayer command line and post this.
>>>>
>>>> Duncan
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Duncan, I should have thought of that before:
>>>
>>
>> np
>>
>>> /usr/bin/mplayer -vo xv,sdl,x11,  -ao sdl -autosync
>>> 100 -nolirc -nojoystick -autoq 100 -screenw 800 -screenh
>>> 600 -fs -slave -cache 8192 /dev/video0, poll=-1
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This should be the default, as I have not changed anything.
>>>
>>
>> This looks ok. I would expect to see a -slave option, but this is the
>> tv module so may be not. As you're using X what is the default mode,
>> 800x600
>> too? It's best to have the two matching.
>>
>> I would change the MPLAYER_VO_DEV (display in freevo.conf) to either xv
>> or sdl, (x11 is a very poor driver)
>>
>> Duncan
>>
>>
>
> OK, I have a new theory about this.  When reading your reply you
> mentioned something about this being the TV module and it made me realize
> that I didn't describe this well enough.  Yes, this is the TV module and
> this only occurs when either recording or or watching video directly from
> the TV card.  This does not occur when I am watching video that I did not
> record myself.  Also once I have tried watching TV in Freevo it seems to
> lock in this weird setting.  If I try mplayer /dev/video0, before using
> freevo, everything is OK, then I try freevo and get weird output from the
> TV then I quit and try
> mplayer /dev/video0 again and the same weirdness is there as when I tried
> in freevo.  The only way I can get back to normal output is to reboot or to
> 'rmmod ivtv' and then 'modprobe ivtv' again.
>
>
> So here is my new theory.  I think that I may have some messed up
> IVTV_OPTIONS.  I set these in my local_conf.py when I was using IVTV 0.4
> with SuSE 10.0 not I am using IVTV 1.x with SuSE 10.2 and a new mobo and
> processor.  Would these options have changed?  I used ivtvctl -a before to
>  get these values, but this has changed with this new driver version.
> How do
> I get the settings that I need?
>
>
> Here are my ivtv options:
>
>
> TV_IVTV_OPTIONS = {
> 'input'         : 0,
> 'resolution'    : '720x480',
> 'aspect'        : 2,
> 'audio_bitmask' : 233,
> 'bframes'       : 3,
> 'bitrate_mode'  : 0,
> 'bitrate'       : 6000000,
> 'bitrate_peak'  : 9000000,
> 'dnr_mode'      : 0,
> 'dnr_spatial'   : 0,
> 'dnr_temporal'  : 8,
> 'dnr_type'      : 0,
> 'framerate'     : 0,
> 'framespergop'  : 15,
> 'gop_closure'   : 1,
> 'pulldown'      : 0,
> 'stream_type'   : 0,
> }

What happens when you comment out the TV_IVTV_OPTIONS settings? Is
everything fine?

What settings do you want to change from the defaults?

I assume that SuSE 10.0 uses kernel 2.6.15 or lower, is this correct?

There is a debug mode for Freevo's ivtv interface which is run by typing:
freevo execute /path/to/ivtv.py
it may show you something but it may need tweaking first.

Duncan


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