[MPlayer-users] TV and newest CVS

[Tobias Geis]

Hi,
i am trying to capture from TV with these options:
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mencoder -forceidx -lameopts br=128:cbr -lavcopts 
codec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame
-tv on:driver=v4l:width=384:height=288 -o test.avi
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but all i got is:

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MEncoder CVS-020914-06:00-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Reading /home/tobias/.mplayer/codecs.conf: this codecs.conf is too old, 
incompatible with this mplayer release! at line 6
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 105 video codecs
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
font: can't open file: /home/tobias/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 
chars)
Selected driver: v4l
 name: Video 4 Linux input
 author: Alex Beregszaszi <alex at naxine.org>
 comment: under development
Selected device: BT848A(Hauppauge (bt848))
 Capabilites: capture tuner overlay clipping frameram scales
 Device type: 235
 Supported sizes: 48x32 => 924x576
 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)
 Audio devices: 1
Using input 'Television'
Selected norm: pal
Requested width: 384
Requested height: 288
Selected channel list: europe-east (including 133 channels)
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x0
Detected TV! ;-)
Output format: Planar YV12
fps: 25.000000, frametime: 0.040000
Output size: 384x288
Picture values:
 Depth: 12, Palette: 15 (Format: Planar YV12)
 Brightness: 32112, Hue: 32112, Colour: 32512, Contrast: 27648
Allocating a ring buffer for 1188 frames, 250 MB total size.
cannot allocate video buffer: Cannot allocate memory
Waiting for threads to finish... done
Cannot open demuxer
Exiting...
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Why cant the video buffer be allocated ??

BUT when I tryed this with the CVS Version from 2002-08-07
it works fine !

Can someone help me ?

Ciao
Tobias