[MEncoder-users] Help with Floating Point Exception Error

[jer]

That makes sense, but the problem I have is that freevo uses that 
command to record shows.  The way you are telling me to approach this is 
to manually set the channel first.  This negates the possibility of 
using any kind of pvr with the ivtv drivers unless I make a script 
unless one is written.

That being said, if you are pointing my problem to a yuv format not 
being supported, why do I get this error with any tv:// options I use?

I have been searching for over three weeks on how to fix this.  So far, 
I have not found a viable solution even though my Hauppauge PVR-150 card 
is supposedly a good choice. 

The goal is to get the freevo record server to work and automatically 
tune the channel.  So far I have not found specific documentation in the 
freevo or google search of how to do this.  I have followed what I have 
read, but things have changed since those documentation were written.  
They use v4l, not v4l2.  Also I am using Debian Etch, no new 
documentation seems to support this.  Even older versions of any flavor 
of linux documentation works because of so many changes.  I feel like I 
am not reading anything carefully enough, but I read over and over again 
and things don't line up.

Mencoder should give better error messages about why tv:// wont work.  I 
cant search google for tv://.  I need help in narrowing this problem 
down, I have searched and searched on my own for three weeks and now I 
am at a loss of what to do.  Any advice would be appreciated.  Thank you 
so much for your time!

RC wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:02:00 -0700
> jer <mencoder at jer-peterson.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Anything I try with tv:// gives me a Floating Exception Error, but 
>> /dev/video0 works just fine, it just doesn't tune to the channel.  I 
>> cannot find ANYTHING on google about this!!!
>>     
>
> You're obviously looking for the wrong things.  The IVTV documentation
> mentions, no doubt, that you have to play /dev/video0, and that the YUV
> format isn't supported by any applications.
>
> tv:// is NOT for MPEG capture cards.  For IVTV, you have to use an
> external application to set the channel first (which comes with IVTV).
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