From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 27 13:23:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F37D316A4CE for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:23:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vineyard.net (k1.vineyard.net [204.17.195.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9668B43D1F for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:23:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshe@mail.elsasser.org) Received: from localhost (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by vineyard.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C14DC91535 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:23:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vineyard.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (king1.vineyard.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 78453-01-8 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:23:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.elsasser.org (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by vineyard.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353EE91529 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:23:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail.elsasser.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6D364AD; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:23:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:23:16 -0400 From: Josh Elsasser To: Damian Gerow Message-ID: <20040827132316.GA35167@jade.elsasser.org> References: <20040827053643.GB29321@afflictions.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040827053643.GB29321@afflictions.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-PGP-Key-URL: http://www.elsasser.org/pubkey.asc X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: 8F39 9F2B 3738 54D9 3E40 4604 CFD5 EA3F B833 FD50 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS-king1 at Vineyard.NET cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer/mencoder with bktr(4) device X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:23:37 -0000 On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 01:36:43AM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote: > I'm new to bktr, and I've got a few questions regarding mplayer/mencoder > usage with it. I've got an AverMedia UltraTV PCI 350: > > bktr0@pci2:11:0: class=0x040000 card=0x00031461 chip=0x036e109e rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Brooktree Corporation' > device = 'Bt878 MediaStream Controller' > class = multimedia > subclass = video > none0@pci2:11:1: class=0x048000 card=0x00031461 chip=0x0878109e rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Brooktree Corporation' > device = 'Bt878/Fusion878A Video Capture (Audio Section)' > class = multimedia > > I've got RCA in working just fine with mplayer, and both RCA and S-Video in > working with fxtv. But I'm having some quality issues with the > de-interlacing of the S-Video input with mplayer -- can anyone give me some > pointers? I've tried various -vf's (hqdn3d, lavcdeint, pp, and pullup seem > to be the best), but the picture is never quite as good as it is with fxtv. > And there's a noticable difference between RCA and S-Video (on fxtv), so I'd > like to get the latter working properly. > > Secondly, how does one encode the audio with mencoder? If I'm looking at > the above correctly, there's no support for the audio portion of this chip? > But it looks like, in fxtv, if I leave the audio set to 'Auto' (as opposed > to 'Internal'), I get two audio feeds...? > > Any pointers or suggestions are welcome... > > - Damian What version of freebsd are you using? There was a tuning bug in the bktr driver that was fixed in -current a couple of months ago, but was only recently merged into -stable. I have a patch for mplayer 0.92 that works around it, but I doubt it will apply cleanly to the version currently in ports. -jre