[MPlayer-users] Hauppauge PVR 350 TV Watching

[Christoph Christ CHCNET Consulting]

Nico Sabbi schrieb:

> 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.
>
Think so. How do I get a strace log?

>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
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