[MPlayer-users] mplayer won't let me watch tv in color from saa7134 tv capture card

[RC]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:52:22 -0800
Reid Fleming <reid at bigredrockeater.com> wrote:

> then, after putting the following into ~/.mplayer/config
> 
>       tv=driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:fps=25:chanlist=us-bcast:\
>         channel=4:norm=4:audiorate=32000:

NTSC is 30fps.  
norm= takes names, not ID numbers (normid= does).

>     # mplayer -vf pp=md,crop=624:400:0:0 tv://

If you encode, make sure you don't use 400, only multiples of 16.