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

[Dominique Michel]

Le Fri, 7 Sep 2012 22:32:00 +0200,
Dominique Michel <dominique.michel at vtxnet.ch> a écrit :

> 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.
> > Better use
> > $ cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr1|mplayer -
> 
> Well, I am confused about this. On the linux-tv wiki
> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Zap#Recording_a_program 
> they write
> 
> mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
> 
> The advantage with this command is than I am able to change the
> channels and mplayer doesn't quit. With
> "cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr1|mplayer -", mplayer quit when I change
> the channel.
> 
> So, what is the problem, if any, with
> "mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0"? Can such command damage my hardware?
> 
According to a small discussion I get with awalls on irc
#linuxtv at freenode, something like "mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0" is
safe, it will not damage the hardware, and the seek stream messages can
be ignored.

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