[MPlayer-dev-eng] Very strange TV behaviour...

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Sun Oct 13 00:46:48 CEST 2002


Hi,

> While I was trying to implement Teletext support for Freevo I noticed 
> something very strange...
> 
> When MPlayer is running with -tv,  the vbi-interface gets extremly unstable... 
> I get like one page of teletext every 5 seconds instead of 100 per second..  
> I guess MPlayer doesn't open /dev/v4l/vbi0, only /dev/v4l/video0 so I have no 
> idea what is causing the trouble.. They use the same driver (bttv/v4l) 
> though...
> But this doesn't happen if I run xawtv, only with mplayer -tv... It doesn't 
> happen if I play an .avi with mplayer either...
> 
> Can someone please have a look at this? I have absolutely NO idea what is 
> causing it... :/  Maybe Mplayer is hammering the driver in some way that 
> xawtv doesn't do?

mplayer grabs video while xavtv only setups teh card for overlay
try grabbing to file with xavtv and try teletext then
probably the bus is busy with video grab/capture so no bw left for teletext
anyway it's very offtopic here.
and do not crosspost. never ever. never!!


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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