From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 20:54:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B9B116A401 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:54:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redchin@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF50D13C491 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:54:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redchin@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g7so757357muf for ; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:54:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=srrlJaS7+XeoGKiQCL8pVd+ewr9MDpAc/rDpnW8fTUyC3EcW4GCi9ReRaaX2nsJoBEeSDnS4cRFl9cOdr7iTuVzcRCmoeafWM7kalRC89SPCHCJShRHdgqPC9KKRZ8xF3IhOT3bU2uH6AE1zb9Vgzniek3/zRIYo4tG3eJjxf9g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kyGTwAiG+nP7csZJQvEA9Fqd+n0OkgzvzZi9s9/ccIvYiW4rK7ZBXpt9YkgiPPsvPl1QWkB6+nJDnVrOI0Pe9gn4vTMs9NJ8q9v5FbRXifjPlwr4albeOz8hosjagjBxPlJekyJQV6qwqIhM4cA9XdD43x2K1ljglF7plZqPM8w= Received: by 10.82.154.2 with SMTP id b2mr1504489bue.1173387265433; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:54:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.118.14 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:54:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1d3ed48c0703081254y7a822d08m4a2b776163f3b6cc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:54:25 -0800 From: "Kevin Downey" To: "Jim Stapleton" In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20703081146q52a7d109k81683b12cda6f191@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <80f4f2b20703081146q52a7d109k81683b12cda6f191@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any application that can read straight form a tv tuner device? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:54:27 -0000 On 3/8/07, Jim Stapleton 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.