[MPlayer-users] Video Capture from a VHS

[Daniel .]

I really need some help here! I have being trying to capture an old VHS tape with mplayer unseccesfully for the last 3 months. So far I have being able only to see the tape with programs like tvtime and Kdetv.  The capture card that I have is a Kworld DVD Maker PCI (the card is a TV883 PCI TV card). The command line that I am using in mplayer is the following: mplayer tv:// -tv input=2:driver=v4l2:decimation=1:width=640:height=480:norm=NTSC:fps=29.97:device=/dev/video1.

Whith this command line I only get a very dark and distorted picture. (Using the same paremeters like NTSC and composite 1 in tvtime, I get a good image)

The out put that I get from mplayer when I run the above command line is the following:
MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 64 Newcastle,Winchester,San Diego,Venice; Sempron Palermo (Family: 15, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.


91 audio & 204 video codecs
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing tv://.
Selected driver: v4l2
 name: Video 4 Linux 2 input
 author: Martin Olschewski <olschewski at zpr.uni-koeln.de>
 comment: first try, more to come ;-)
Selected device: KWorld LTV883RF
 Tuner cap:
 Tuner rxs:
 Capabilites:  video capture  video overlay  VBI capture device  tuner  read/write  streaming
 supported norms: 0 = NTSC-M; 1 = NTSC-JP; 2 = PAL-BG; 3 = PAL-DK; 4 = PAL-I; 5 = PAL-M; 6 = PAL-N; 7 = PAL-Nc; 8 = PAL-60; 9 = SECAM-L; 10 = SECAM-DK;
 inputs: 0 = Television; 1 = for debug only; 2 = Composite1; 3 = S-Video;
 Current input: 2
 Current format: BGR24
v4l2: current audio mode is : MONO
v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: BGR 24-bit)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using BGR 24-bit as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: using unscaled BGR 24-bit -> Planar YV12 special converter
VO: [xv] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12
Selected video codec: [rawbgr24] vfm: raw (RAW BGR24)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...

Any suggestions how can I make this work?
What is format BGR24? Do I have to use a presacling, since the VHS is interlaced? What is the planar YV12 conver? Do I need to change that?

Please help and consider that I am a newbie to Linux also.
Regards
Daniel



 
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