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Dear all,
I'm currently trying to get my tv card working with mplayer as I want to use mencoder to start ripping some films. I already posted this on mplayer-users mail list but got no response. I have a working tv card after loading bttv and tuner modules - xawtv works fine.
This is what the docs say about the v4l driver:
First, you have to recompile. ./configure will autodetect kernel headers of v4l stuff and the existence of /dev/video* entries. If they exist, TV support will be built (see the output of ./configure).
OK - so I recompiled with ABS but after firing up mplayer I got the following:
[root@sigma7 robot5x]# mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc rawi420 -vo xv tv://
Playing tv://.
Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) TV detected! ;-)
No such driver: v4lSo it seemed like v4l not compiled in after all. Next time I changed pkgbuild to include --enable-tv-v4l but got same result.
Is anyone using tv cards with mplayer here? How can I get this darn v4l driver to load?
Thanks for any help
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I found a thread on gentoo forum (ta greeno) dealing with this.
Apparently mencoder only recognises /dev/video0 no matter what you tell it - bit of a problem for us devfs'ers obviously....I'll try making a symlink when I get home and see how it goes.
Exciting, huh!
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OK recompiled with tv card actually in use and it works!
mplayer/mencoder requires a symbolic link from your tv card to /dev/video
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hiho.
allthough you answered yourself already.
generally u wouldn't need a symlink, as the man-page indicates:
device=<value>
Specify other device than the default /dev/video0.but the easiest way is to make a symlink in devfsd.conf
mak.
btw. i use v4l2 instead of v4l
$ wget -c -r -l inf -i what_the_hel.l
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