[Mplayer-dvb] Mplayer DVB support

[Nico]

Jukka Neppius wrote:

>cd MPlayer-0.90
>./configure
>make
>->
>Checking for DVB ... no 
>(specify path to DVB/ost/include with --with-extraincdir=DIR)
>
>It seems to want these files from DVB/ost/include:
>#include <ost/dmx.h>
>#include <ost/frontend.h>
>#include <ost/sec.h>
>#include <ost/video.h>
>#include <ost/audio.h>
>
>I can find sec.h only from siemens_dvb-0.9.4.tar.gz Unfortunately I
>found several version of 0.9.4!!  All more or less broken!
>
>Drivers from www.linux-dvb.tv (dvb-20030331.tar.bz2) and CVS update
>21.4.03 seem to work.
>  
>
they use newstruct drivers.

>So my MPlayer has no DVB support. What do I lose?
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>

the chance to stream directly from dvb (no dvbstream intermediation) and 
to change channel while watching.
If you use the newer drivers you should have dvb-head enabled (and DVBIN 
defined to 1 in config.mak), right?

>
>I wrote a simple script to call dvbstream | mplayer. Is there any
>program to do this?
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>
Mplayer-cvs.

>Currently I can only get stream for 3 seconds! Perhaps Hauppauge DVB
>card needs extra cooling.  It worked well last week, when temperature
>was lower. Does anyone else have this problem?
>
>- Jukka
>
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