[Mplayer-dvb] can't watch tv with mplayer.

Mark Hannessen msh104.mymail at 12move.nl
Wed Jan 1 20:35:19 CET 2003


can anyone give me a command line example for watching tv using a dvb card.
i tryd using:

mplayer -tv on:driver=v4l -vo xv

but i am getting the following output

Playing TV
TV detected! ;-)
Selected driver: v4l
 name: Video 4 Linux input
 author: Alex Beregszaszi <alex at naxine.org>
 comment: under development
Selected device: DVB Board
 Capabilites: capture tuner overlay clipping frameram scales
 Device type: 235
 Supported sizes: 32x32 => 768x576
 Inputs: 1
  0: DVB: tuner audio tv camera  (tuner:1, norm:ntsc)
Card reports an unknown audio mode !
Trying two channel audio. Use forcechan to override.
Card reports an unknown audio mode !
Trying two channel audio. Use forcechan to override.
Using input 'DVB'
ioctl get tuner failed: Invalid argument
Tuner isn't capable to set norm!
Error: cannot set norm!




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