[MPlayer-users] Problem with TV on Pinacle PCTV Pro

[Bert Haverkamp]

Hello all,

I am unable to get my pinnacle PCTV pro tvcard working with mplayer. 
I feel like I tried everything. Under xawtv, I have no problems, so I feel 
like there should be a simple solution.The information from lspci -v about 
the card is

00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture 
(rev 11)
        Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc. PCTV pro (TV + FM stereo receiver)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
        Memory at e2021000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

00:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 
11)
        Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc. PCTV pro (TV + FM stereo receiver, 
audio section)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
        Memory at e2022000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

I tried a lot of different command lines:
 mplayer tv://E8 -tv driver=v4l:norm=pal:width=640:height=480:outfmt=yv12  -vo 
xv
It starts up OK, gives audio (I can even change channels with different values  
behind tv:// for instance tv://E6). A window opens, but no video. The 
contents of the window is a  copy of my desktop somewhere below the window.
On the console it gives me the following output
MPlayer 1.0pre2-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred 2001 MHz (Family: 6, 
Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
MMX2 supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE

Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': 
No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio & 157 video codecs
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or 
directory
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 52 binds
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not open config file
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to read LIRC config file ~/.lircrc.
You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing tv://E8
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    TV detected! ;-)
Selected driver: v4l
 name: Video 4 Linux input
 author: Alex Beregszaszi
 comment: under development
Selected device: BT878(Pinnacle PCTV Studio Pr)
 Capabilites: capture tuner overlay clipping frameram scales
 Device type: 235
 Supported sizes: 48x32 => 924x576
 Inputs: 4
  0: Television: tuner audio tv camera  (tuner:1, norm:pal)
  1: Composite1: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:pal)
  2: Composite2: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:pal)
  3: S-Video: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:pal)
Card reports an unknown audio mode !
Trying two channel audio. Use forcechan to override.
Using input 'Television'
Selected channel: E8 (freq: 196.250)
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12
Selected video codec: [rawyv12] vfm:raw (RAW YV12)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...


I have tried many different options for the comandline. Different values for 
outfmt, width, height, driver and -xv. I'm lost and would apreciate some 
help. Maybe this is also important. I am using the nvidia drivers for 
Xwindows on a debian system.