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

[RC]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 02:14:54 +0100
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?

Actually, ivtv cards are able to switch into providing RAW output like
non-MPEG TV cards, but the ivytv driver doesn't support that, and very
few people care :-)

Anyhow, don't hold your breath.  The IVTV driver and system is a giant
hack, and there's no standard way to do it.  You use "ivtv-tune", while
I use "chann", and others use other programs.  There needs to be some
standard in V4L on how to handle MPEG cards, rather than more hacks
that just barely work.

Have you tried changing the channel while MPlayer is playing from the
device?  It gets rather ugly.  You could write a little script to
intercept keystrokes, change the channel, and restart mplayer.  That
would probably work just as well as anything else.