On Sunday 15 January 2006 05:21, Hans Nieser grooved on as follows: > James Nickerson wrote: > > When I point mplayer at /dev/video0 or use vlc's streaming option to do > > the same, the video stream plays fine for a while, but then after a > > couple minutes it starts to get jerky. Also, in some cases eventually > > the audio gets out of synch with the video (this usually seems to happen > > when changing channels, rewinding a tape, or doing something similar that > > shakes up the normal stream of things). > > > > If I cat /dev/video0 to a file, these symptoms never occur. I assume > > that the problem lies somehow in the synchronization between the playback > > software and the encoding software. Pressing the 'forward' button in > > mplayer, for instance, causes it to start playing properly again. Since > > I'm not worried about the encoding functioning correctly, I guess what > > I'm asking is how other people watch live video without issue. I know > > mythtv is typically employed, but doesn't it just use other engines, like > > mplayer's, for the same purpose? > > > > Thanks, > > James > > I have the exact same issue with my 150 MCE, I used to just close/open > mplayer to get rid of the jerkiness but I'll give skipping forward a > try. I haven't managed to get VLC to play from /dev/video0 yet so I'm > not sure wether the problem is specific to mplayer.
Yeah, you can't just execute 'vlc /dev/video0', but you can run vlc, then 'File -> Open Capture Device' and it seems to give much the same effect. And I go back on what I said earlier -- it looks like vlc manages to play it without the jerkiness, and doesn't have problems even when I fast-forward/rewind. Maybe it is specifically a problem with the ivtv/mplayer combo. > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
