[Mplayer-dvb] dvbin working with vdr controling channel changing?

[Juha]

Sorry for replying to myself, but...

Actually, I got excited about the prospects of this and started looking
into it, and realized (at least I think I did, this is all quite new to
me) that this should/(could?) work already using the tv:// functionality
in mplayer. Is this correct? I haven't found too much information on the
subject. The example from mplayer documentation doesn't work however,
below is the console output of it. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Have I understood correctly, is this the correct way to use mplayer as I
described in my previous mail? I'd appreciate any help alot!

Juha
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bash:~# mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc
rawi420 tv://
MPlayer 1.0pre2-3.2.3 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner 515.8 MHz (Family:
6, Step
ping: 3)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or
directo
ry
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No 
such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/usr/local/etc/mplayer/c
odecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or
director
y
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such
file or 
directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing tv://
TV detected! ;-)
Selected driver: v4l
 name: Video 4 Linux input
 author: Alex Beregszaszi
 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!


Exiting... (End of file)



On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 19:21, Juha wrote: 
> Hi there,
> 
> I just saw that there is DVB input support in mplayer nowadays. Thats
> just great news, my thanks go to all the developers!
> 
> I was wondering that is it possible to use dvb input so, that it leaves
> the control of the mpeg stream to vdr (ie. no channels.conf in .mplayer
> required), so I could still use vdr's recording functionality. mplayer
> would read the overlay from v4l device and output the picture to
> television? That way I could have all the functionality of vdr but using
> '-vo dfbmga' instead of the tv-out of my dvb-c card for output to tv and
> gain the ability watch eg. divx movies without transcoding them to
> mpeg1. Would be totally awesome!!
> 
> Thank's in advance,
> 
> Juha
> 
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