[MPlayer-users] Problems in viewing and encoding TV

[Stefan Sassenberg]

Hello Erik,

all I know that might help is to check the cable from tv-out to 
soundcard-in and adjust the volume (General volume, Line in volume(s) 
and IGain volume)

Good luck

Stefan


eric tanguy wrote:
> Hello Stephan, the problem is the driver so i try to use v4l2 driver but
> you have to indicate normid and also the device :
>  mplayer -tv
> driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:normid=2:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420
> -vc rawi420 -vo xv tv://
> It runs but my problem is : without any sound.
> How add sound ??
> Eric
> 
> 
>>Hello Eric,
>>
>>eric tanguy wrote:
>>
>>>I tried to use shalvideo to record tv but i got some errors about
>>>drivers and so on. So i tried just to watch tv with mplayer using :
>>>mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc
>>>rawi420 -vo xv
>>>
>>>and nothing but this message :
>>>#########################################################################
>>>MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
>>>
>>>CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton 1831 MHz (Family:
>>>6, Stepping: 0)
>>>Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
>>>CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
>>>Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: Aucun fichier ou
>>>répertoire de ce type
>>>Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
>>>Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
>>>'/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
>>>Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
>>>'/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
>>>Using built-in default codecs.conf.
>>>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: Aucun fichier
>>>ou répertoire de ce type
>>>Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf: Aucun fichier ou
>>>répertoire de ce type
>>>Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
>>>Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
>>>Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : Aucun périphérique de ce
>>>type Can't init input joystick
>>>Setting up LIRC support...
>>>mplayer: could not connect to socket
>>>mplayer: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
>>>Failed to open LIRC support.
>>>You will not be able to use your remote control.
>>>
>>>Playing tv://.
>>>TV detected! ;-)
>>>Selected driver: v4l
>>> name: Video 4 Linux input
>>> author: Alex Beregszaszi
>>> comment: under development
>>>================================================================>
>>>WARNING: YOU ARE USING V4L DEMUXER WITH V4L2 DRIVERS!!!
>>> As the V4L1 compatibility layer is broken, this may not work.
>>> If you encounter any problems, use driver=v4l2 instead.
>>> Bugreports on driver=v4l with v4l2 drivers will be ignored.
>>>================================================================>
>>>Selected device: BT848A video (Pinnacle PCTV Stu
>>> Capabilites: capture tuner overlay clipping scales
>>> Device type: 171
>>> Supported sizes: 48x32 => 924x576
>>> Inputs: 3
>>>  0: Television: tuner audio tv camera  (tuner:1, norm:secam)
>>>  1: Composite1: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:secam)
>>>  2: S-Video: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:secam)
>>>Using input 'Television'
>>>ioctl get tuner failed: Argument invalide
>>>Tuner isn't capable to set norm!
>>>Error: Cannot set norm!
>>>
>>>
>>>MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: demux_open
>>>- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
>>>  Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
>>>disassembly. Details in
>>>DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
>>>- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
>>>  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in
>>>your gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
>>>  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We
>>>can't
>>>and
>>>  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a
>>>possible
>>>bug.
>>>##########################################################################
>>>
>>>I tried to look for this kind of errors in the mailing list but i'm a
>>>newbie and not understand what i read.
>>>So please help me, i use fedora core 2.
>>>Thanxes.
>>>Eric
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>try playing with the -tv parameter 'norm': The F man page says:
>>
>>                  norm=<value>
>>                       available:  PAL,  SECAM, NTSC. For v4l2 use the
>>normid option below.
>>
>>Best regards
>>
>>Stefan
>>
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