[MPlayer-users] No video output on ivtv/v4l2 TV out

[Russell Treleaven]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu 
> [mailto:mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Peter Daum
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:45 AM
> To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] No video output on ivtv/v4l2 TV out
> 
> 
> Russell Treleaven wrote:
> > You should also be able to use -vo cvidix:ivtv
> 
> ... unfortunately, this looks pretty much like the original 
> attempt with -vo ivtv: mplayer cheerfully plays the video, 
> but doesn't produce any visible output on the TV out :-(
> 
> I'd suspect that there is a hardware problem, but since the
> X server works just fine, that can't be the case ...
> 

What happens when you do this?

"cat someVideo.mpg > /dev/video16"

Where someVideo.mpg is an mpeg2 encoded video and /dev/video16 is the
mpeg decoder.

Sincerely,

Russell Treleaven