[MPlayer-users] No video output on ivtv/v4l2 TV out

[Russell Treleaven]

> > What happens when you do this?
> > 
> > "cat someVideo.mpg > /dev/video16"
> > 
> > Where someVideo.mpg is an mpeg2 encoded video and 
> /dev/video16 is the 
> > mpeg decoder.
> 
> The sound plays fine, but the screen stays dark :-(
> 
> Regards,

I think we can rule out mplayer now.

The following line is from dmesg output

ivtv0-fb: Display size 720x480 (720x480 Virtual) @ 8bpp

When I "cat someVideo.mpg > /dev/video16"
I don't see anything because the framebuffer overlay defaults to opaque.
To make the framebuffer overlay transparent try this.
v4l2-ctl --set-fbuf=chromakey=1

I apologize to the list for going off topic.
 
Sincerely,

russ at else.net