[MPlayer-users] no image from tv in

[Giles RC Morant]

On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 07:35, Chittaranjan Mandal wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Only a green background is displayed - no image only some disturbance at the top
> few lines in a small window.
> Capture works for xawtv and mplayer does play mpg files.
> Some suggestions please.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chitta

Sounds like it's not tuned properly.  Check channel/frequency or
frequency table.  And make sure you are using the correct TV card input.

> ================================================================================
> $ mplayer  -tv on:input=2:driver=v4l
> Using GNU internationalization
> Original domain: messages
> Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
> Current domain: mplayer
> Current dirname: /usr/share/locale
> 
> 
> MPlayer 0.90rc2-RPM-3.1 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)
> 
> CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Xeon Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 2)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with RUNTIME CPU Detection - warning, it's not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
> Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
> Reading config file /users/chittaLocal/.mplayer/config
> Reading /users/chittaLocal/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/users/chittaLocal/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 49 audio & 125 video codecs
> font: can't open file: /users/chittaLocal/.mplayer/font/font.desc
> font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
> Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid root or /dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
> Using usleep() timing
> Can't open input config file /users/chittaLocal/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
> Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed : 50 binds
> 
> Playing TV
> Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    Detected TV! ;-)
> Selected driver: v4l
>  name: Video 4 Linux input
>  author: Alex Beregszaszi <alex at naxine.org>
>  comment: under development
> Selected device: BT878(Hauppauge (bt878))
>  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:pal)
>   1: Composite1: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:pal)
>   2: S-Video: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:pal)
>   3: Composite3: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:pal)
> Using input 'S-Video'
> Selected input hasn't got a tuner!
> vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
> VDec: vo config request - 48 x 32 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
> VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
> Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
> VO: [xv] 48x32 => 48x32 Planar YV12
> Selected video codec: [rawyv12] vfm:raw (RAW YV12)
> ==========================================================================
> Audio: no sound!!!
> Start playing...
> 
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Giles RC Morant <giles.morant at dur.ac.uk>