Dan, It may be worthwhile to ditch mepis and just download another distro livecd (and later you can burn it to disk) where this might work out of the box. You wouldn't have to do all this. For maximum hit ratio, try ubuntu or kubuntu.
-devsk ----- Original Message ---- From: dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Communications nexus for pvrusb2 driver <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:05:55 PM Subject: Re: [pvrusb2] saa7115 1-0021: Video signal: bad Mike Isely wrote: > > > > OK, that is an mplayer problem does a driver problem. The mplayer > program supports multiple output back-ends and it either can't figure > out what to use or what it is choosing isn't working. Run "mplayer -vo > help" and you'll get a list of all the choices. Two choices that are > likely to work in all cases are "-vo x11" and "-vo xv". The second > choice is preferred because then it will be able to scale the video > using a hardware scaler on the GPU. But if "-vo xv" doesn't work then > certainly "-vo x11" will. I also suggest you find some nice mpg video > clips somewhere and just try to play those with mplayer. Then you can > debug mplayer issues separate from pvrusb2 driver issues. Once you have > something that works, you can write these options into ~/.mplayer/config > (or something like that). Check the man page for mplayer to find out > more details about all of this. I wouldn't even bother with kmplayer > until mplayer itself is working first. > > -Mike > > I don't know why I keep trying this!!!!!! kmplayer gives me more info to work with and I don't know mplayer commands, etc. I have the wintv box connected to a coax cable source and also to a composite source. Neither of these will play "TV" in linux (mepis). Kmplayer (mplayer) plays avi, jpeg, wmv files and streaming video (utube) with no problem. The handbook with kmplayer recommends: 1- start kmplayer from console, 2 - try play then capture mplayer -wid1234567 etc and paste to another console. This is what I get when I do that: :~$ kmplayer QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key kmplayer: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol ''. kmplayer: mplayer -wid 50332603 -slave -vo xv,sdl,x11 -ao alsa,oss,sdl,arts -framedrop driver=v4l -vf pp=lb -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -tv noaudio:driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:input=2:width=48:height=32 -slave -nocache -quiet 'tv://' -identify eval gui_play I found this in the mplayer man pages: -pvr <option1:option2:...> (PVR only) This option tunes various encoding properties of the PVR capture module. It has to be used with any hardware MPEG encoder based card supported by the V4L2 driver. The Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150/250/350/500 and all IVTV based cards are known as PVR capture cards. Be aware that only Linux 2.6.18 kernel and above is able to handle MPEG stream through V4L2 layer. For hardware capture of an MPEG stream and watching it with MPlayer/MEncoder, use 'pvr://' as a movie URL. ************************************************************ changed 'tv://' to 'pvr://'------------------------: ************************************************************ ~$ mplayer -wid 37750035 -slave -vo xv,sdl,x11 -ao alsa,oss,sdl,arts -framedrop driver=v4l -vf pp=lb -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -tv noaudio:driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:input=2:width=48:height=32 -slave -nocache -quiet 'pvr://' -identify MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing driver=v4l. File not found: 'driver=v4l' Failed to open driver=v4l. Playing pvr://. [pvr] Using device /dev/video0 [pvr] Detected Hauppauge WinTV pvr-usb2 [v4l2] Available video inputs: '#0, television' '#1, s-video' '#2, composite' '#3, radio' [v4l2] Available audio inputs: '#0, PVRUSB2 Audio' [v4l2] Available norms: '#0, PAL-M' '#1, PAL-N' '#2, PAL-Nc' '#3, NTSC-M' '#4, NTSC-Mj' '#5, NTSC-Mk' [v4l2] Video input: television [v4l2] Audio input: PVRUSB2 Audio [pvr] failed with errno 22 when reading 2048 bytes [pvr] read 0 bytes . . .pvr] failed with errno 22 when reading 2048 bytes [pvr] read 0 bytes Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll [pvr] failed with errno 2 when reading 2048 bytes [pvr] read 0 bytes . . . [pvr] failed with errno 2 when reading 2048 bytes [pvr] read 0 bytes Exiting... (End of file) This is too much for an old brain to absorb.....When I take in new I have to dump something old.....It just frustrates me for windows to work and linux not.....!!!!!!! Dan _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
