Hi, Trying to capture video from the tvcard (bt878) for the first time.. I can 'play' using mplayer command: mplayer -tv driver=v4l:chanlist=australia:norm=PAL:width=320:height=240:outfmt=yuy2:adevice=/dev/dsp tv://10 I have the audio out of the card hooked to the audio in of my onboard sound. The sound works wether I specifiy the device or not, authough the mplayer output shows no audio.. ("Audio: no sound").. I think this is where the recording is failing but i'm not sure.. This is the command i use: mencoder -tv driver=v4l:chanlist=australia:norm=PAL:width=320:height=240:outfmt=yuy2:adevice=/dev/dsp -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 -vf crop=720:544:24:16,pp=lb -o test.avi tv://10 This is what I get (dies on something called a demuxer??) MEncoder 1.0pre3-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 /Athlon MP/XP Palomino 1145 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 2) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE Reading /mnt/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/mnt/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio & 169 video codecs File not found: 'frameno.avi' Failed to open frameno.avi Reading config file /mnt/.mplayer/mencoder: No such file or directory font: can't open file: /mnt/.mplayer/font/font.desc Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) success: format: 9 data: 0x0 - 0x0 TV detected! ;-) Selected driver: v4l name: Video 4 Linux input author: Alex Beregszaszi comment: under development Selected device: bttv video Capabilites: capture tuner overlay clipping frameram scales Device type: 235 Supported sizes: 48x32 => 924x576 Inputs: 3 0: Television: tuner audio tv camera (tuner:1, norm:pal) 1: Composite1: audio camera (tuner:0, norm:pal) 2: S-Video: audio camera (tuner:0, norm:pal) ============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported ============= === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! === Cannot open demuxer. Exiting... Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Mick