Sanjay Darisi wrote:
> Sanjay Darisi wrote:
>   
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I've got a new Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 Analog TV tuner card. I've got 
>> the ivtv driver compiled and installed. But couldn't get any player to 
>> work with my tv tuner card. I have knoppix 5.0 installed on my primary 
>> sata drive with 2.6.17 kernel. I've googled a lot for mplayer options to 
>> play with no success so far.
>>
>> When I tried mplayer /dev/video0
>>
>> MPlayer 1.0pre8-4.0.4 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
>> CPU:               Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (Family: 15, Model: 
>> 4, Stepping: 3)
>> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
>> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
>>
>>
>> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice/congar.ttf doesn't look like a font 
>> description, ignoring.
>> Cannot load font: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice/congar.ttf
>> Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
>> Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system 
>> startup scripts.
>>
>> Playing /dev/video0.
>> MPEG-PS file format detected.
>> VIDEO:  MPEG2  640x480  (aspect 2)  25.000 fps  9600.0 kbps (1200.0 kbyte/s)
>> ==========================================================================
>> Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
>> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
>> Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
>> ==========================================================================
>> ==========================================================================
>> Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
>> VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
>> Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
>> The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
>> Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
>> VDecoder init failed :(
>> Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
>> Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
>> ==========================================================================
>> [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or 
>> resource busy
>> AO: [null] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
>> Starting playback...
>> VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
>> Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
>> Opening video filter: [scale]
>> VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
>> Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
>> SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGR 16-bit special converter
>> VO: [fbdev] 640x480 => 640x480 BGR 16-bit
>> A:  22.6 V:  22.6 A-V:  0.006 ct: -0.310 545/545  7% 11%  2.1% 0 0
>>
>>
>>
>> goes on... no video though.
>>
>> Any ideas of what I'm missing??
>>
>> Appreciate any help.
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> I tried with
>
> mplayer /dev/video0 -dumpstream
>
> and it did create a file 'stream.dump'. I was able to play that mpeg 
> file with xine player. I wasn't able to play with mplayer though, it 
> just flickers on the top of the screen.
>
> Anyways, any ideas how to watch analog tv with xine. I know that new 
> xine version does support wintv 250/350 pvr.
>
> I'd really appreciate if anybody can give me the exact mrl for watching 
> tv in xine.
>
>   
Figured a way to use xine to watch tv from my card.

cat /dev/video0 | xine stdin:/

did the trick.

I'm still not sure why mplayer doesn't play any video. I think its 
something to do with video scaling or X video extension of my X.org 
(7.x) server and the graphics card (ATI Radeon X300).



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