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

[Nico Sabbi]

Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:

> On 2005-11-07 | 10:43:39, Nico Sabbi wrote:
>
>> why don't they simply implement a DVB driver?
>
>
> Maybe because these cards are for ANALOG broadcasting? What do you 
> mean by DVB driver? Supply a MPEG-TS stream?


analog, yes, but they produce an mpeg2 encoded stream.
When tuning these eventual drivers should consider only the "frequency" 
parameter and disregard
all the others (modulation, bandwidth, etc).

> Even if the card/driver did this, one would still have to call mplayer 
> as if /dev/video0 were a file and not a TV tuner.


or maybe mplayer dvb://TV_STATION

>
>> Afaik those cards can be programmed to output TS rather than PS.
>
>
> Theoretically these cards have a stream_type codec parameter that can 
> be set to MPEG-TS but my PVR-150 is not the only one that fails to 
> encode anything with this setting.
>
> Tom


maybe it's a driver issue
 
 
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