On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:33:56AM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:27:03AM +0200, Simon Bertrang wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:03:26AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 04:17:44PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > Our in tree version of MPlayer is ancient. I noticed this when trying > > > > smplayer last week and it told me so. I CC'd the maintainer of mplayer > > > > in and I have not heard anything, so I attempted to take an update on > > > > myself. > > > > > > is anyone using bktr(4) support in mplayer? it's kinda awkward and > > > confusing, as it does both video and audio in the same "driver", > > > even though bktr(4) does not have any audio interface ... > > > > > > > Well, at least there's > > "Brooktree BT878 Audio" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 8 function 1 not configured > > ... > > > > We're using mplayer to watch TV but I wasn't able to look at the audio > > part yet, but having support for it would be nice. Currently the TV > > card has it's own cable to the external mixer (hardware). > > Yep, i used it extensively with a > bktr0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Brooktree BT848" rev 0x12: ivec 0x7d8 > using mplayer -tv device=/dev/bktr0:driver=bsdbt848:input=1,audioid=1 tv:// > to watch what was sent on composite input of the card. worked really > nice at that point... to bad bktr is only i386/amd64, i'd have like to > make it work on sparc64 (didnt test macppc yet).
well, that doesn't really use the audio part of the bktr support in mplayer. it's only used for mencoder, when recording. but, people are obviously using the bktr support, so I guess I'll make it use sndio instead of OSS. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
