Arch Linux

savnn

Member

Registered: 2010-11-22

Posts: 2

Problem with codecs?

I've dual-boot arch/kubuntu. Kubuntu is a system i used last 3 years on my laptop. But Arch is amazing the only thing which stops me from moving to it 100% is TV from my Internet provider. I'm using Kaffeine (which has a xine as a backend afaik ). The quality is poor...  here is a screenshot: http://piccy.info/view3/733374/d85e6ff3 … e3109dd80/

I've no more idea how to fix this. Please advice...

Last edited by savnn (2010-11-23 07:28:08)

kfgz

Member

From: Supraśl, Poland

Registered: 2009-03-02

Posts: 114

Re: Problem with codecs?

Wild guess: Kaffeine uses v4l1 instead of v4l2. You can try mplayer or xdtv (AUR).

mplayer

mplayer -vo xv -vf pp=fd tv://

Scroll with middle mouse button to change channel.

brazzmonkey

Member

From: between keyboard and chair

Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 818

Re: Problem with codecs?

I won't help much, but I used to watch TV with tvtime.

---

what goes up must come down

savnn

Member

Registered: 2010-11-22

Posts: 2

Re: Problem with codecs?

thank you guys for your replies.  Yes, mplayer works great, without that green lines and with good colors. I even tried several wrappers, such as KMplayer, SMPlayer. But you know, it looks like I found a workaround and did not fix the problem, just running from it.

As for tvtime - I've read description on it's page and seems it works with video capture cards. I do not have one. What i have is UDP stream with encoded video. Kubuntu's xine decodes it correctly, but Arch's does not.