[MPlayer-users] [PATCH] reworked video capture - testers needed

[Jukka Tastula]

On Sunday 11 August 2002 12:11, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:

> Compiles but doesn't work for me (note that it didn't function before
> so this  isn't your patch fault).
>
> As reported before mplayer says that the tuner is unable to set the
> norm (it supports PAL and SECAM, no problem with xawtv.). Searching in
> the ml shows that another person reported it with anoher tv card.
>
> See
> http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2002-July/018681.html
> and
> http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2002-May/015614.html

One thing the manual does not tell you is that you don't actually use
input=television but input=number where number is the number from the
list mplayer prints like

 Inputs: 4
  0: Television: tuner audio tv camera  (tuner:1, norm:0)
  1: Composite1: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:0)
  2: S-Video: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:0)
  3: Composite3: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:0)

so here I'd use "mplayer -tv on:driver=v4l:input=0" .. not input=television
like the documentation suggests.

Also I noticed it seems to matter a great deal in which order you have the
options for -tv .. if you have them in the order the docs list them like

mplayer -tv on:noaudio:driver=v4l:input=0:outfmt=yv12:width=768:height=576:norm=PAL:channel=E12:chanlist=europe-west

here chanlist gets ignored for some reason and it just uses europe-east.