[MPlayer-users] Hauppauge PVR 350 TV Watching

[Nico Sabbi]

Christoph Christ CHCNET Consulting wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I''ve recently bought this wonderful tv-card which produces a nearly 
> DVD picture :-)
>
> I can use the Hauppauge PVR 350 card with IVTV 0.4.3 drivers, by 
> manually setting the input channel, with 'ivtvctl -p4' to the tuner
> and by setting the appropriate TV-Channel via ivtv-tune -t europe-west 
> -c E6 (e.g.). The ivtv driver creates devices /dev/v4l/video0, from 
> which I'm capable to play the mpeg2 stream via 'mplayer /dev/v4l/video0'.
>
> This works perfectly. But I want to use the tv-capabilities of 
> mplayer, which I like very much...
>
> I tried it with all possibilities, but wasn't able to do it:
>
> mplayer -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/v4l/video0:input=4 tv://E6
>
> recognizes the card and prints everything correctly, but before it 
> starts playing tv it fails with an ioctl error (could not open buffers 
> or such)


does ivtv implement a subset of V4L[2]? If so, the tv_stream code may 
work with few changes.
If you post a strace log some of the developers may be able to look into it.

>
> Does anybody have an idea, how to do tv with this card? Maybe do I 
> have to use dvb:// instead?


no, they use incompatible APIs

>
> kind regards
> Christoph Christ
>
>