[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer audio from TV line???

[Jonathan Rogers]

rcooley wrote:
>> The man page on mplayer says immediatemode is default 1, video capture 
>> only
>> with loopback cable for sound, but then when I try to set 
>> immediatemode to 0,
>> the option doesn't exist for mplayer. 
> 
> 
> What do you mean the option doesn't exist?  Sounds like you are 
> specifying it wrong, somehow.

I think he's trying to read audio from the capture device of his TV card 
(/dev/dsp1) and play it back on his sound card (/dev/dsp). As I said, 
mplayer doesn't do that, but sox can. I don't know how reliable that 
method will be.

I've been trying to do the exact same thing on my system. I use ALSA, so 
I was using ecasound instead of sox. It works great for a few minutes. 
Then, at a random time after starting the transfer, my machine becomes 
very unresponsive. If I don't kill ecasound immediately, the box freezes 
and I have to hit reset. I suspected there may be problems resulting 
from timing or frequency skew between the two sound devices, but I don't 
know why it kills my box.

Jonathan Rogers