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

Timo Reimann ttr2654 at yahoo.de
Wed Nov 5 17:22:28 CET 2003


Does really *nobody* has a clue concerning how to get
a TV picture on my screen instead of green wall of
nothing? This is driving me nuts!

Somebody told me it could be an overlay issue, I tried
'nooverlay' and 'overlay' but it didn't help. :(


> 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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