[MPlayer-users] Capturing from TV question

[Corey Hickey]

Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> Just a small question: I'm reading mplayer docs and following the example 
> given - so nice, so good, but I have 1 problem: I need to capture sound from 
> /dev/dsp2 (i'm using a BT878 based card which needs the btaudio module, which 
> opens 2 new mixers)..
> 
> I don't find anywhere where I can setup which audio device to grab audio from 
> - any suggestion?
> 
> Thanks,
> Hetz
> 

I found this in the manpage. Should do the trick.

-tv <option1:option2:...>
        This option enables the TV grabbing feature of MPlayer.
[SNIP]
           adevice=<value>     set an audio device
                                  /dev/... for OSS
                                  hardware ID for ALSA

-Corey