On 2005-04-28 at 12:29BST "Simon Baxter" wrote: > >> I've been using mplayer's Mencoder to encode streams > >> from my WinTV NovaT card on the fly, with varied > >> results. I start a tzap to tune the card, then mencode > >> it. > > why don't you use directly > > > > $ mencoder dvb:// ... > > > > instead? > > ...snip > Not sure how to get this working : > [file] No filename > Failed to open dvb:// > Cannot open file/device. Was mplayer built with dvb support? When building mplayer the configure script needs to find the appropriate headers before it will compile in dvb -- where to find them depends on your linux distribution. > It looks ok : > [root@media ~]# /root/bin/tzap -c /root/.tzap/channels.conf -r 'five' > using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' > tuning to 561833330 Hz > video pid 0x0000, audio pid 0x0caa > status 01 | signal 3838 | snr f763 | ber 0000089c | unc 00000000 | > status 01 | signal 3939 | snr f763 | ber 0000089c | unc 00000000 | > status 1f | signal 3a3a | snr ffd6 | ber 00000029 | unc 00000000 | > FE_HAS_LOCK > status 1f | signal 3939 | snr ffff | ber 00000000 | unc 0000000b | > FE_HAS_LOCK > status 1f | signal 3939 | snr ffff | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | > FE_HAS_LOCK What happens if you start tzap like that and then cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > five.ts ... kill it after a while and then ls -l five.ts to see if you got anything? If you did, you can use mencoder to convert it to something else (or view the ts with mplayer). Cheers, J?n -- J?n Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
