Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:54:25 -0800 From: "Kevin Downey" <redchin@gmail.com> To: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any application that can read straight form a tv tuner device? Message-ID: <1d3ed48c0703081254y7a822d08m4a2b776163f3b6cc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20703081146q52a7d109k81683b12cda6f191@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20703081146q52a7d109k81683b12cda6f191@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/8/07, Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com> wrote: > i.e. > > $ 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) > > I found that, if I have enough delay between the two commands, > $ cat /dev/cxm0 > /tmp/tvfile > $ noatun /tmp/tvfile > > does the job I need, but, it has some latency, which can be > problematic (especially if I were playing a console game), also it > tends to create a rather large file, unncecessarily. > > Thanks, > -Jim Stapleton you can run cat /dev/cxm0|vlc stream:///dev/stdin and watch in vlc. You would think: vlc stream:///dev/cxm0 would work without the pipe, but it doesn't. -- The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.
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