Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 21:42:45 +0100 From: Anders Troback <freebsd@troback.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any application that can read straight form a tv tuner device? Message-ID: <20070308214245.6b3270b0@devil.troback.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20703081146q52a7d109k81683b12cda6f191@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20703081146q52a7d109k81683b12cda6f191@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:46:42 -0500 "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> wrote: > i.e. >=20 > $ SomeMpegViewer < /dev/cxm0 >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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) >=20 > I found that, if I have enough delay between the two commands, > $ cat /dev/cxm0 > /tmp/tvfile > $ noatun /tmp/tvfile >=20 > 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. >=20 > Thanks, > -Jim Stapleton I have be using Xine with great success, just do: cat /dev/cxm0 | xine stdin:// With mplayer I had to make a lager cache like: mplayer -cache 4000 /dev/cxm0 \\troback --=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D How many Microsoft employees does it take to screw in a light bulb? None, they declare darkness a new standard. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Trob=E4ck http://www.troback.com/ -
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