From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 9 12:23:25 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 0CE7F16A400 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:23:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D6BA13C4B2 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:23:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so954257nfc for ; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:23:23 -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:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uCJncxcMqDFObGFAnyDzKvv5d46gvHPRgNdwpa6C08LjQkW6XKiEfK0ITpL8GxXhc5ykKeHbvBhpOBk+iC/+CvQkFNndjCf3Ot5FSIJuHm0jU4RlCKd2LAdxqY6j3LXnS2O6Pm/ww4ApbWSrzrhuJjReTpJUAlArIBln6P1LMDk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Q5ZC4CQpVfBpGvvLGUAqYscNwC2TJC9DTf020IYj+Bq8g55jlvX0/BN3hs8q93tb0BXAZ4L13/T87vKKhhZnWqE6FkPm91c2Ge6uxQPIszgt2BFy92oCxGgO5RppP9vsS+7V7vs+Eu82bqFwLONWZBwSsm252OcQM73HogI+QUA= Received: by 10.82.135.13 with SMTP id i13mr2620683bud.1173443002725; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:23:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.151.15 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 04:23:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20703090423r999afecpf4181f4a6f62171a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:23:22 +0000 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1d3ed48c0703081254y7a822d08m4a2b776163f3b6cc@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <80f4f2b20703081146q52a7d109k81683b12cda6f191@mail.gmail.com> <1d3ed48c0703081254y7a822d08m4a2b776163f3b6cc@mail.gmail.com> 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: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:23:25 -0000 I read all of these, thanks everyone for the assist, I'll play with them today. These should help me debug my tuner as well. On 3/8/07, Kevin Downey wrote: > 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. >