From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 20:42:53 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 A57DE16A402 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:42:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@troback.com) Received: from mail.gelita.se (212-162-182-244.skbbip.com [212.162.182.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646BC13C471 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:42:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@troback.com) Received: from devil.troback.com (c-195-216-040-156.cust.thalamus.net [195.216.40.156]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F10D10F90B for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 21:42:46 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 21:42:45 +0100 From: Anders Troback To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070308214245.6b3270b0@devil.troback.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20703081146q52a7d109k81683b12cda6f191@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20703081146q52a7d109k81683b12cda6f191@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.0 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Troback-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Troback-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Troback-MailScanner-From: freebsd@troback.com X-Spam-Status: No 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 20:42:53 -0000 On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:46:42 -0500 "Jim Stapleton" 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/ -