Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:42:34 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any application that can read straight form a tv tuner device? Message-ID: <20070308214234.57dc98c7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20703081146q52a7d109k81683b12cda6f191@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20703081146q52a7d109k81683b12cda6f191@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:46:42 -0500 Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com> wrote: > $ SomeMpegViewer < /dev/cxm0 > > would alow me to use my TV tuner? The application would be used ONLY > for video/audio. Channel changing and such would be handled by another > appliation on the command line. > > I tried mplayer since it was supposed to be able to handle mpg videos > from stdin, however it gave me an error saying there was too much data > per packet (I don't have it with me at the moment, so I can't say > exactly what it is) FWIW, I use 'mplayer -cache 8192 /dev/cxm0' with my pvr-350 or pvr-500, and that works fine. I decided the 8192 cache value by starting low and increaseing until the video was ok. HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway
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