[MPlayer-users] xawtv can play from USB2 capture card, but mplayer cannot

[Nick Koretsky]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 15:53:41 -0700
Marc MERLIN <marc_mplayer at merlins.org> wrote:

> xawtv, now more than 15 years old :) can play from it without problems.
> 
> legolas:~$ mplayer /dev/video1
> 
> I understand I don't have a great capture card, but if it works with
> xawtv, I'm hopeful it could/should work with mplayer too :)
> 
> 


You are using wrong mplayer command. The right way to play v4l with mplayer
is:
mplayer tv:// --tv=[options] 


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