[MPlayer-users] TV problems

[Mike Hyde]

I am havinng problems getting TV to work on mplayer.  Below is what I 
get.  Anny ideas?


[root at localhost freevo]# mplayer -vo x11 -fs -tv 
on:driver=v4l:input=0:norm=NTSC:channel=2:chanlist=us-cable:width=640:height=480:outfmt=yuy2 
-nocache -wid 0x02800001 -xy 800 -monitoraspect 4:3
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90pre8-3.2 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP 
Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with RUNTIME CPU Detection - warning, it's not optimal! To get 
best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open 
'/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 106 video codecs
init_freetype
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz)
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or 
directory
Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or 
directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up lirc support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed opening lirc support!
You won't be able to use your remote control

Playing TV channel 2
Detected TV! ;-)
Selected driver: v4l
 name: Video 4 Linux input
 author: Alex Beregszaszi <alex at naxine.org>
 comment: under development
ioctl get tuner failed: Invalid argument
Selected device: Km
 Capabilites: capture
 Device type: 1
 Supported sizes: 640x240 => 640x240
 Inputs: 1
ioctl get channel failed: Invalid argument
ioctl set chan failed: Invalid argument
Tuner isn't capable to set norm!
Unable set requested height: 480
Selected input hasn't got a tuner!
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local 
display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 240 (preferred csp: Packed YUY2)
Couldn't find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Packed YUY2 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1

SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from Packed YUY2 to BGR 32-bit using MMX2
VO: [x11] 640x240 => 800x300 BGR 32-bit  [fs]
X11 error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Aborted (core dumped)