[mythtv-users] Re: Does mplayer work on frame grabbers?
Joseph Caputo
jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Thu Mar 17 19:25:16 UTC 2005
Justin Gombos wrote:
> * Joseph Caputo <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> [2005-03-17 13:56]:
>
>>MPlayer supports ordinary tuner cards. Just run "mplayer
>>tv://[channel] [options]". See the manpage for available options.
>>Or, you could use xawtv or another similar V4L program.
>
>
> Xawtv was a great suggestion. It worked, and it's the first time I've
> seen the AverMedia EZMaker DVD card work in linux. What a relief to
> finally see it work. Progress!! Xawtv simply worked. I wish I had
> tried it sooner. I only had to switch from PAL to NTSC to get color.
>
> So xawtv has proven that the card and the v4l2 saa7130 driver can grab
> frames in linux, and that it's correctly configured.
Great.
> Now I have to figure out why mplayer and MythTV can't do the same
Not sure.
> why I can't even read from the /dev/video0 device using cat.
Probably because you're not supposed to.
-JAC
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