[MPlayer-cygwin] tv support in windows?

[Compn]

At 12/7/2003 11:32:00 AM, you wrote:
>> any ideas if its possible to hack up some windows code for tv support?
>> windows has some standard api for tv capture, wdm (for ati) and vfw (the
>rest).
>> and a vfwwdm wrapper for all win versions for Bt848/Bt849/Bt878/Bt879
>> which requires lots of proc speed... ( http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/ )
>>
>> www.virtualdub.org is open source and one of the best video capture
>programs for win.
>> but i dont know if thats even helpful.
>>
>
>Afair virtualdub uses  the windows api to capture/display the video. I think
>it is impossible to change
>the channels with it. This would require some additional register
>programming for which we need to have
>a port of libdha or something similar first. The current libdha works ok on
>windows98
>but doesn't work at all on NT based systems.

well, like with virtual dub, it says to change the channel with the software
tuner first, then start it up... so mplayer wouldnt be good for watching tv,
just mencoding' i guess. or just pull from svideo/rca and change channels
with vcr.