[MPlayer-users] Which MPlayer parameters I need for PVR 350 and ATI X1300 ?

[enrico2 at swissonline.ch]

Hi

I have following PC:

Hewlett-Packard Compaq dc7600 CMT
Pentium D 3.4 GHz
1 GB RAM
300 GB SATA hard disk
ATI X1300SE (RV515 7146)
fglrx with 3D
Hauppauge PVR 350
SUSE 10.2 (x86_64)
kernel-2.6.18.2-34-default x86_64
KDE 3.5.5 "release 45"

I have already installed MPlayer with YaST and it works, playing video files 
using my ATI video card and 3D activated; to do this, after starting MPlayer 
from the KDE manue, I needed to select "Preferences", select the tab "Video" 
and to choose "gl X11 (OpenGL)", otherwise trying to play a file with the 
default values, the graphic server crashed and I found myself again at the 
login mask.

Now I'm trying to configure MPlayer to watch TV with my Hauppauge PVR 350 
card. I have already configured PV 350 following the hints in 
http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto and in the corresponding SUSE 
specific howto.
I could test the installation, first setting a channel for the tv-card, then I 
could generate and save an mpg file and at the end I could start MPlayer, 
select and play this file. This means till here, the PVR 350 is configured 
and MPlayer can play a file generated by the PVR on the ATI video card. The 
used command were:

ivtv-tune -f 471.230 -d /dev/video0
cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg

Now I would like to see directly tv with MPlayer using the PVR 350 tv-card and 
here I'm still having problems...

I have tried to use following command and a few variations of it:

gmplayer pvr:// -vo gl /dev/video0

I'm using "gmplayer" instead of "mplayer" to get the graphical interface 
started (KDE uses also gmplayer to start MPlayer) and "-vo gl" to use the ATI 
video card and to avoid crashing the graphic server.

For the rest, I have also tried using tv:// instead of pvr:// but without 
success...

It's also not very clear to me, if I need other "pvr" or "tv" parameters for 
input and something else als output parameter, beside the "-vo gl"...

Thanks for your hints !

Enrico