[Mplayer-dvb] mplayer can't open DVB VIDEO DEVICE

[Steffen Barszus]

Am Donnerstag, 29. August 2002 04:07 schrieb Javier Marcet:
>     Hi everybody,
>
> I don't know what I'm doing wrong with mplayer, but right now I
> can't make it work with my DVB-s 1.3 card. I know I could use the
> mpegpes video and audio output in the past, but I can't anymore.
> Mplayer has been compiled with DVB support, it detects correctly
> the headers - which are on /usr/src/DVB -, but later on it can't open
> the DVB device.
>
> I am stuck on it since the error report is anything but verbose.

I think you didn't load the driver before you try to play trough the device, 
or you have just running vdr and the device is occupied from this process.

Greets

Steffen