As requested here is the output of mplayer -v and the relevant section from dmesg: mohr@rosetta ~ $ mplayer -v dvb://ION MPlayer dev-SVN-r28288-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team CPU: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2216 (Family: 15, Model: 65, Stepping: 2) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/mohr/.mplayer/codecs.conf' Reading /home/mohr/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 131 audio & 274 video codecs Configuration: --cc=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc --host-cc=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer --datadir=/usr/share/mplayer --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-menu --enable-network --disable-tv-bsdbt848 --disable-faad --disable-ivtv --enable-bl --disable-cdparanoia --charset=UTF-8 --disable-lirc --disable-lircc --disable-joystick --disable-tv-teletext --enable-radio --enable-radio-capture --disable-libdirac-lavc --disable-libschroedinger-lavc --xanimcodecsdir=/usr/lib/xanim/mods --disable-real --disable-win32dll --disable-directfb --disable-caca --disable-vidix --disable-vidix-pcidb --disable-zr --disable-dxr3 --enable-gui --enable-xvmc --with-xvmclib=XvMCW --disable-3dfx --disable-tdfxvid --disable-tdfxfb --disable-arts --disable-jack --enable-runtime-cpudetection --disable-altivec CommandLine: '-v' 'dvb://ION' init_freetype Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay get_path('fonts') -> '/home/mohr/.mplayer/fonts' Using nanosleep() timing get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/mohr/.mplayer/input.conf' Parsing input config file /home/mohr/.mplayer/input.conf Input config file /home/mohr/.mplayer/input.conf parsed: 1 binds get_path('ION.conf') -> '/home/mohr/.mplayer/ION.conf' Playing dvb://ION. get_path('sub/') -> '/home/mohr/.mplayer/sub/' UNKNOWN TUNER TYPE DVB_CONFIG, can't detect tuner type of card 0, skipping DVB_CONFIG, can't open device /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0, skipping DVB_CONFIG, can't open device /dev/dvb/adapter2/frontend0, skipping DVB_CONFIG, can't open device /dev/dvb/adapter3/frontend0, skipping DVB CONFIGURATION IS EMPTY, exit Failed to open dvb://ION. vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not initialized.. Exiting... (End of file) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux video capture interface: v2.00 cx88/0: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.6 loaded ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 19 cx8800 0000:01:07.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:5500, board: pcHDTV HD5500 HDTV [card=47,autodetected] cx88[0]: TV tuner type 64, Radio tuner type -1 tuner' 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (cx88[0]) tda9887 0-0043: creating new instance tda9887 0-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found tuner' 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx88[0]) tuner-simple 0-0061: creating new instance tuner-simple 0-0061: type set to 64 (LG TDVS-H06xF) cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:01:07.0, rev: 5, irq: 19, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfd000000 cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2] cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0 cx88/2: cx2388x MPEG-TS Driver Manager version 0.0.6 loaded cx88[0]/2: cx2388x 8802 Driver Manager cx88-mpeg driver manager 0000:01:07.2: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:01:07.2, rev: 5, irq: 19, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfb000000 cx2388x alsa driver version 0.0.6 loaded cx88_audio 0000:01:07.1: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 cx88[0]/1: CX88x/0: ALSA support for cx2388x boards cx88_audio 0000:01:07.1: PCI INT A disabled cx2388x blackbird driver version 0.0.6 loaded cx88/2: registering cx8802 driver, type: blackbird access: shared cx88[0]/2: subsystem: 7063:5500, board: pcHDTV HD5500 HDTV [card=47] cx88[0]/2: cx8802 probe failed, err = -19 cx88/2: cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.6 loaded cx88/2: registering cx8802 driver, type: dvb access: shared cx88[0]/2: subsystem: 7063:5500, board: pcHDTV HD5500 HDTV [card=47] cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based DVB/ATSC card tuner-simple 0-0061: attaching existing instance tuner-simple 0-0061: type set to 64 (LG TDVS-H06xF) tda9887 0-0043: attaching existing instance DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]) DVB: registering frontend 0 (LG Electronics LGDT3303 VSB/QAM Frontend)... On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Nico Sabbi <Nicola.Sabbi@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 29 January 2009 08:45:01 Mike Mohr wrote: >> mplayer-users, >> >> I own a pcHDTV HD-5500 DTV capture card. It seems that support for >> this card was broken a while ago. I recently updated from >> mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1.ebuild to mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28288.ebuild. >> With the former ebuild, everything works as expected and I get nice >> DTV video. With the latter, I get this output: >> >> mohr@rosetta ~ $ mplayer dvb://ION >> MPlayer dev-SVN-r28288-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team >> CPU: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2216 (Family: 15, Model: >> 65, Stepping: 2) >> CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 >> Compiled with runtime CPU detection. >> 131 audio & 274 video codecs >> >> Playing dvb://ION. >> UNKNOWN TUNER TYPE >> DVB CONFIGURATION IS EMPTY, exit >> Failed to open dvb://ION. >> >> >> Exiting... (End of file) >> >> I've also built svn revision 28387 (svn head as of Jan 28, 2009 >> 11:40 PM PST) and I get nearly identical output: >> >> mohr@rosetta ~/mplayer $ ./mplayer dvb://ION >> MPlayer SVN-r28387-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team >> CPU: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2216 (Family: 15, Model: >> 65, Stepping: 2) >> 131 audio & 274 video codecs >> >> Playing dvb://ION. >> UNKNOWN TUNER TYPE >> DVB CONFIGURATION IS EMPTY, exit >> Failed to open dvb://ION. >> > > run it again with -v and search in the ouput of dmesg the description > of the DVB/ATSC tuner type > _______________________________________________ > MPlayer-users mailing list > MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users > _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users