[MPlayer-users] Problems in viewing and encoding TV

[Stefan Sassenberg]

Hello Eric,

eric tanguy wrote:
> I tried to use shalvideo to record tv but i got some errors about drivers
> and so on. So i tried just to watch tv with mplayer using :
> mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc rawi420
> -vo xv
> 
> and nothing but this message :
> #########################################################################
> MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
> 
> CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton 1831 MHz (Family: 6,
> Stepping: 0)
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: Aucun fichier ou répertoire
> de ce type
> Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
> Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
> Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf':
> Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
> Using built-in default codecs.conf.
> font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
> Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
> Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
> Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: Aucun fichier ou
> répertoire de ce type
> Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf: Aucun fichier ou
> répertoire de ce type
> Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
> Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
> Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : Aucun périphérique de ce type
> Can't init input joystick
> Setting up LIRC support...
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
> Failed to open LIRC support.
> You will not be able to use your remote control.
> 
> Playing tv://.
> TV detected! ;-)
> Selected driver: v4l
>  name: Video 4 Linux input
>  author: Alex Beregszaszi
>  comment: under development
> =================================================================
>  WARNING: YOU ARE USING V4L DEMUXER WITH V4L2 DRIVERS!!!
>  As the V4L1 compatibility layer is broken, this may not work.
>  If you encounter any problems, use driver=v4l2 instead.
>  Bugreports on driver=v4l with v4l2 drivers will be ignored.
> =================================================================
> Selected device: BT848A video (Pinnacle PCTV Stu
>  Capabilites: capture tuner overlay clipping scales
>  Device type: 171
>  Supported sizes: 48x32 => 924x576
>  Inputs: 3
>   0: Television: tuner audio tv camera  (tuner:1, norm:secam)
>   1: Composite1: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:secam)
>   2: S-Video: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:secam)
> Using input 'Television'
> ioctl get tuner failed: Argument invalide
> Tuner isn't capable to set norm!
> Error: Cannot set norm!
> 
> 
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: demux_open
> - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
>   Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
>   disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
> - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
>   It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
>   gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
>   DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't
> and
>   won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible
> bug.
> ##########################################################################
> 
> I tried to look for this kind of errors in the mailing list but i'm a
> newbie and not understand what i read.
> So please help me, i use fedora core 2.
> Thanxes.
> Eric
> 
> 
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> 

try playing with the -tv parameter 'norm': The F man page says:

                  norm=<value>
                       available:  PAL,  SECAM, NTSC. For v4l2 use
                       the normid option below.

Best regards

Stefan