[MPlayer-users] Playing trouble with multi-tuner dvb card

[Dominique Michel]

Le Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:26:56 +0200,
Nico Sabbi <nicola.sabbi at poste.it> a écrit :

> Dominique Michel ha scritto:
> > - and play it mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr1 or mplayer 
> > /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 Ciao, Dominique
> 
> don't play device files as if they were plain files, or mplayer will
> try to seek on them.

Thanks for the answer.

If I understand the issue correctly, when mplayer try to seek on
device files, it will try to seek on the devices (on the hardware), and
those devices will not necessary appreciate this.

> Better use
> $ cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr1|mplayer -
> 

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