[MPlayer-users] MPlayer cvs tv capture and kernel 2.6.0-test series

[Jindrich Makovicka]

Fabio Papa wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi list,
> as you may or may not know, new 2.6 series kernel dropped the "old" bttv 0.7x 
> driver and uses 0.9x instead, which main feature is (I think) v4l2.
> I have tried it last evening, capturing a star trek show from a vhs of mine, 
> but it gave pretty bad results. I get lots of B (and S I think) frames, 
> particularly in the first 3-4 seconds, and then I have other B, but not that 
> much, for all the lenght of the work. 
> What's really weird is that this gets worse if I lower resolution, by using 
> the scale filter: I capture from bttv in 768x576 and then scale to 352:288. 
> This way I got tons of Bs even after the initial 3-4 seconds, and the 
> resulting video is unwatchable. 
> Now, I know maybe mplayer needs something to work well with this new driver, 
> but can someone confirm this?
> Thanks.

Please try the latest CVS, it has native support for v4l2.

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Jindrich Makovicka