[MPlayer-users] only green screen on TV-in attempt

[Timo Reimann]

Hi,

I'm trying to get mplayer use my TV-card in order to
watch TV from of my box.

I'm using mplayer 0.92 on a Debian (Woody) machine
with kernel 2.4.18 (self-compiled). The TV adapter in
action is a Hauppauge WinTV Express with a bt878 chip.

Using mplayer on standard MPEG-1 works flawlessly, but
when I try to capture A/V signals all I get is a
complete green screen. This doesn't look like static
of off-frequence channels to me.

I've tried several different mplayer arguments but
couldn't find a working configuration.

Here's how I start mplayer, including the
corresponding output:

------START-----------------------------------

debian:~# mplayer -tv
on:noaudio:driver=v4l:norm=PAL:chanlist=europe-west
MPlayer 0.92-2.95.4  (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird
(Family: 6, Stepping:
2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0
SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow
3DNowEx

Reading config file
/usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or
directory
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open
'/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or
directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open
'/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or
directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file:
/usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such device (mplayer
should be setuid root
or /dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file
/root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or
directory
Can't open input config file
/usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such
file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing TV
TV detected! ;-)
Selected driver: v4l
 name: Video 4 Linux input
 author: Alex Beregszaszi <alex at fsn.hu>
 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 'Television'
vo: X11 running at 800x600 with depth 24 and 32 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
Starting playback...
V:   1.2   30   0%  0%  0.0% 0 0 0%

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module:
video_read_frame


MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module:
free_demuxer
debian:~#

------END-------------------------------------

(The signals were caused by myself to stop mplayer).

I've successfully tested my TV adapter on XawTV so the
driver is working.
I live in Germany thus using PAL.

I appreciate any proposals.

  --Timo

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