[MPlayer-users] couldn't play with dvb://

[Nico]

Falko Pilz wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I was waiting for Mandrake 10 because the Kernel 2.6 should 
>support my SAA7146 (Technotrend DVB-S).
>
>After applying firmware I got from "mplayer dvb://1":
>
>get_tuner_type(card 0), ERROR IN OPENING FRONTEND DEVICE
>/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0: ERRNO 2
>
>So what have I forgotten? Do I something wrong?
>
>At the german Manpage I found:
>"mplayer tv:// on:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc
>rawi420 -vo xv"
>
>Which answers: 
>
>Cache fill:  0,00% (0 bytes)    TV detected! ;-)
>Selected driver: dummy
> name: NULL-TV
> author: alex
>Selected input hasn't got a tuner!
>
>How could I got a Frontend or a tuner?
>
>Regards
>
>Falko
>  
>

most likely you didn't load the drivers or you don't have permission rights