[MPlayer-users] Support for ivtv driven tv cards?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 11/7/05, Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz at hostmaster.org> wrote:
> Are there any plans to provide better support for ivtv driven tv cards
> that provide a tuner but do not support the buffer interface and supply
> a mpeg stream instead?
>
> Currently you have to tune the card using ivtv-tune and then call
> "mplayer /dev/video0". Most other v4l players do not yet support mpeg at
> all so I guess mplayer / mencoder would be the perfect candidate for
> pioneering this feature. I guess it should be easy to support the
> tv://channel syntax and then call the mpeg decoder instead.

There was a bad patch flying around some weeks ago. Feel free to dig
the archives and either use it for your own good and/or try to clean
it up and resubmit it.

Guillaume
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