[mythtv-users] Re: Does mplayer work on frame grabbers?

[Joseph Caputo]

Justin Gombos wrote:
> * Joseph Caputo <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> [2005-03-17 13:56]:
> 
>>MPlayer supports ordinary tuner cards.  Just run "mplayer
>>tv://[channel] [options]".  See the manpage for available options.
>>Or, you could use xawtv or another similar V4L program.
> 
> 
> Xawtv was a great suggestion.  It worked, and it's the first time I've
> seen the AverMedia EZMaker DVD card work in linux.  What a relief to
> finally see it work.  Progress!!  Xawtv simply worked.  I wish I had
> tried it sooner.  I only had to switch from PAL to NTSC to get color.
> 
> So xawtv has proven that the card and the v4l2 saa7130 driver can grab
> frames in linux, and that it's correctly configured.

Great.

> Now I have to figure out why mplayer and MythTV can't do the same

Not sure.

> why I can't even read from the /dev/video0 device using cat.

Probably because you're not supposed to.

-JAC