From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 10 01:23:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E928016A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:23:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq1.home.nl (smtpq1.home.nl [213.51.128.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C8843D31 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:23:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.128.136] (port=46033 helo=smtp5.home.nl) by smtpq1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DKRAh-0003V7-W4; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:23:31 +0200 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.215.228]:52235 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp5.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DKRAh-0007F0-3L; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:23:31 +0200 From: Danny Pansters To: Michael Butschky Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:23:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050409171149.C11377@computi2.butschnet.org> <200504100111.22945.danny@ricin.com> <20050409200845.V95390@computi2.butschnet.org> In-Reply-To: <20050409200845.V95390@computi2.butschnet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504100323.14914.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: (k)mplayer for bktr TV playing [Re: Problems with fxtv] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:23:34 -0000 [ unless it gets really speculative or specific, please also CC the mailing list so that poeple can profit from the archives ] On Sunday 10 April 2005 02:11, you wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Thanks so much for your reply. Does (k)mplayer support TV tuners? If so, > do you need to provide the frequencies? I couldn't find the frequencies > on Comcast's website. I'll try to call them on Monday. Yes. The bktr has two (main) parts to it, the capture (meteor) function and the tuner (tv). mplayer initializes both (so does fxtv) but kmplayer invokes a new mplayer every time you change channels/frequencies. This may not matter but if you get lots of hangs/freezes when changing channels, fxtv may work better for you. I think the freezing is a hardware problem that may or may not occur. With kmplayer you should do the following: In your .kde/share/config/kmplayerrc, at least add the following: [TV] Devices=/dev/tuner Driver=bsdbt848 And create a [/dev/tuner] section with at least something like this: [/dev/tuner] Audio Device=/dev/mixer Inputs=0:Composite1;1:Television;2:S-Video;3:Composite3 Name=Pinnacle/Miro TV No Playback=false Norm=PAL Size=-1,-1 Television=Ned1:184;Ned2:192;Ned3:200;RTL4:744;RTL5:720;SBS6:632;Yorin:648;Veronica:792;Net5:504;Discovery:848;Animal Planet:776;Nat. Geographic:832;Preview:232;Een:208;Canvas:216;BBC1:664;BBC2:696;BBC World:856;Eurosport:840;Euronews:544;CNN:760;MTV:784;TMF:752;The Box:712;ARD:528;ZDF:568;WRD:624;TV5:736;Brabant TV:488;Lokaal:480;Royaal:512;Info:224;Nickelodeon:728;TRT:824 Initially it only needs the Inputs line (I have TV at input 1 not at 0 which is kinda peculiar), the Name is what you can set up through the GUI, it's not required to get it going, neither are (in my case) the No Playback, Norm, Size parameters. The Television= part should have at least one working name:frequency (or maybe three, I'm not sure). Note that 'Television' is an arbitrary name as is the 'Name' param. If you only add the minimum, you should be able to go into the settings -> configure menu, then source -> TV, and do scan or go to the /dev/tuner tab if it already there. Then under 'Television' (or whatever other arbitrary name you gave the input corresponding with your tuner) you can add Channel/Freq tabel values for all your stations. I know that the code as-is doesn't work well with the "Norm" (eg pal, secam, ntsc) but the bktr cards usually have good autodetection and that should be enough I think. HTH, Dan P:, bktr also has provisions for channelsets (mainly US oriented) perhaps you can also use that. For me with fxtv and for everyone with kmplayer you need to ahve a frequency set to fill in. > Again, many thanks for your reply, > Mike > > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Danny Pansters wrote: > > On Saturday 09 April 2005 23:17, Michael Butschky wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I just purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-GO-Plus and am trying to get it to > >> work with fxtv. When the system boots, it recognizes the bktr device > >> fine. But, when I bring up fxtv, all I get on all the channels are > >> static. Note that I am using Comcast Super Basic cable service from > >> the 21114 zip code. Is there something I need to do with the frequency > >> mapping? > > > > Yes. See /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Fxtv, you can add channel names > > <--> frequencies there. I got my set of frequencies from my cable > > provider's info (I'm in Holland). They should have that info somewhere > > for their customers. I think if you have such a config file for fxtv in > > your ~ directory it's called just Fxtv or rcsh something like that (I > > remember installing NetBSD on another slice about 3 months ago and using > > a shared home partition and it immediately used the stations I had set up > > as well as the fonts/colors). See the fxtv man page also. > > > > Lately I've been using (k)mplayer for tv but I did use fxtv a lot before. > > I don't have it installed at present though. > > > > > > HTH, > > > > Dan