[MPlayer-dvb] Mencoder and DVB-C Non-FTA channels

[Jonas Roum-Møller]

Hi,

Talked to some of the devs on linuxtv -IRC. They recomeded using gnutv
or zap (for test) - both part of linuxtv-dvb-apps in hg. I tried gnutv
but found a couple of errors related to CAM access, but they fixed this
immediately (credits go to the linuxtv devs :). And currently I'm able
to record directy to disc using gnutv. Or setup vdr0 and have mencoder
read from that.. However, there seems to be a bug with mplayer: If I set
gnutv to output to stdout and have mencoder read directly from that,
mplayer crashed, leaving a Broken pipe. This can be reproduced even if I
try to:  cat gnutvrecordedfile.mpg | mplayer - 
However mplayer gnutvrecordedfile.mpg works just fine..

Regards,
Jonas

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 14:42 +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Jonas R-M wrote:
> 
> > On 9/18/06, Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at email.it> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I wrote mencoder -
> >>
> >> mencoder -of mpeg ... - < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
> >>
> > Sorry my mistake, didn't notice stdin. :)
> >
> > This method works with FTA but still does not de-scramble the signal
> > (it would seem).
> >
> > I use:
> > czap -r CHANNEL  (which reports FE_HAS_LOCK)
> > mencoder -of mpeg -o file.mpg - < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
> > which then reports:
> >
> 
> 
> there must be a program n linuxtv-dvbapps that tunes and descrambles,
> it's probably written by Andrew de Quincy. Maybe zap or maybe something 
> else,
> try to investigate a bit and let us know the result, please :) so that I can
> update the docs.
> 
> Thanks,
>     Nico
>  
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