Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:23:22 +0000 From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any application that can read straight form a tv tuner device? Message-ID: <80f4f2b20703090423r999afecpf4181f4a6f62171a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1d3ed48c0703081254y7a822d08m4a2b776163f3b6cc@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20703081146q52a7d109k81683b12cda6f191@mail.gmail.com> <1d3ed48c0703081254y7a822d08m4a2b776163f3b6cc@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <redchin@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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