[MPlayer-users] v4l2 TV card problems

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 05 June 2003, Petr Klíma wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello,
> I've got Genius Video Wonder III Pro TV card. It's based on Philips 
> 7134 chip. I had to patch kernel to support v4l2 and compiled saa7134 
> module. The card works (configured as Flyvideo 3000).
> I also had to recompile xawtv suite to be able to watch tv in xawtv or 
> motv.
> But mplayer refuses to work correctly - I get picture, but no sound is 
> played. Is there any way to make it to work? Some hideous command line 
> options, some black magic?

MPlayer doesn't record audio from the TV card, only MEncoder does.
Connect the TV card's audio out to your soundcard's line-in and crank up
the volume. :)

HTH

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