A raw stream mode would be handy. I am currently using a cable box, and using the menus is a bit slow as the MPEG encoding/decoding process increases the response time between the menu commands and the screen update. Is there a way to read the RAW stream and display it in mplayer?
-----Original Message----- From: "Cougar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Christoph Christ CHCNET Consulting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "User discussion about IVTV" <[email protected]> Sent: 2/20/06 5:16 AM Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] mplayer TV functionality Try this: cat /dev/video0 | mplayer - Works for me :-) -- Cougar On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Christoph Christ CHCNET Consulting wrote: > :-( Is there an alternative possibility to play tv in stream mode? > > Hans Verkuil schrieb: > > >mplayer in tv mode does not work with ivtv because the buffering API > >mplayer wants to use is not implemented in ivtv. And is not likely to > >be implemented anytime soon. > > > > Hans > > > >On Sunday 19 February 2006 13:08, Christoph Christ CHCNET Consulting > >wrote: > > > > > >>Hi guys, > >> > >>I am already 2 weeks trying to get my hauppauge pvr350 to work under > >>linux with mplayer. Does anybody in here have an idea, what I have to > >>setup to get it up and running? > >> > >>mplayer /dev/video0 is working without problem, I'm able to select > >>the tuner with ivtvctl -p4 and also to change channels with ivtv-tune > >>-t europe-west -c E6 (e.g.). But mplayer simply refuses to work > >>correctly > >> > >>here is the debug output of mplayer.. > >> > >>MPlayer dev-CVS-060102-08:04-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team > >>CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 64 Newcastle,Winchester,San > >>Diego,Venice; Sempron Palermo (Family: 15, Stepping: 2) > >>MMX2 supported but disabled > >>3DNowExt supported but disabled > >>CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 > >>Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX 3DNow SSE SSE2 > >> > >> > >>Warning unknown option cache-prefill at line 147 > >> > >>Warning unknown option ovc at line 2 > >>Warning unknown option oac at line 3 > >>89 audio & 203 video codecs > >>Setting up LIRC support... > >>mplayer: could not connect to socket > >>mplayer: No such file or directory > >>Failed to open LIRC support. > >>You will not be able to use your remote control. > >>Playing tv://E6. > >>Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) > >>Selected driver: v4l2 > >> name: Video 4 Linux 2 input > >> author: Martin Olschewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> comment: first try, more to come ;-) > >>Selected device: WinTV PVR 350 > >> Tuner cap: STEREO LANG1 LANG2 > >> Tuner rxs: STEREO > >> Capabilites: video capture video output VBI capture device VBI > >>output tuner audio read/write > >> supported norms: 0 = NTSC; 1 = PAL; 2 = SECAM; > >> inputs: 0 = Composite 0; 1 = Composite 1; 2 = Composite 2; 3 = > >>Composite 3; 4 = Tuner 0; 5 = Composite 4; 6 = S-Video 0; 7 = S-Video > >>1; 8 = S-Video 2; 9 = S-Video 3; > >> Current input: 0 > >> Current format: unknown (0x4745504d) > >>v4l2: current audio mode is : STEREO > >>Selected channel: E6 (freq: 182.250) > >>v4l2: ioctl request buffers failed: Invalid argument > >>v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped. > >> > >> > >>Exiting... (End of file) > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >ivtv-users mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > > > > > > -- > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > Christoph Christ > > CHCNET Consulting > Am Röhrgraben 2 > A-2410 Hainburg/Donau > mobil: +43/664/930 70 44 > fax: +43 1 253 30 33 4252 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Skype: linuxguru2001 ICQ:66777108 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Besuchen Sie auch unseren Onlineshop http://www.edv-versand.at! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
