Thankyou for everyone's suggestion - but I'm not trying to play NTSC content, I'm trying to watch/record it via the pvrinput plugin >>> I also guess you patched your VDR for NTSC, so maybe it just can't >>> playback your pvrinput stream if it's looking like you described, be it >>> live or recorded, as it seems to be PAL... >> >> Patched VDR for NTSC? Nope - I must have missed something?? > > Well, I remember there was a thread even this year in which Klaus was > admitting he should make this configurable after version 1.4 is polished > http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2006-April/008726.html > The attached patch was sent by C.Y.M. by that time, and looking to it, > it seems it could make a difference, as it hard-codes the frame rate in > recording.h among other things. I just tried if it cleanly applies to > vdr-1.4.1 and it does, so give it a try. No, it's not VDR that seems to be causing the problem. To clarify, this is my setup: -vdr 1.4.0 -Shuttle SK43G PC with s-video output -Unichrome drivers for NTSC tv-out -USA NTSC Television -PVR-150 (NTSC only) -xine plugin VDR works fine. I can use it to watch old (PAL) recordings made in the UK, watch .avi files, play mp3s, play DVDs etc > Yes, and don't forget that "Frames per GOP" setting, maybe that one is > important, too. In the end maybe it starts working with both of these > patches. I set this too, with no affect. I have made one change which seems to have changed the output slightly. I applied the following changes to pvrinput: diff -Naur device.c device.c.SBB --- device.c 2006-06-21 09:46:01.000000000 -0700 +++ device.c.SBB 2006-06-21 08:11:14.000000000 -0700 @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ readThread = new cPvrReadThread(video_fd, vbi_fd, tsBuffer, &mutex); SetVideoNorm(videoNormPAL); SetCodec(); - SetVideoSize(720, 576); + SetVideoSize(720, 480); SetInput(tunerInput); SetPicture(PvrSetup.Brightness, PvrSetup.Contrast, PvrSetup.Saturation, PvrSetup.Hue); SetVolume(PvrSetup.AudioVolume); @@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ { SetVideoNorm(lastNorm); SetCodec(); - SetVideoSize(720, 576); + SetVideoSize(720, 480); SetInput(lastInput); SetPicture(PvrSetup.Brightness, PvrSetup.Contrast, PvrSetup.Saturation, PvrSetup.Hue); SetVolume(PvrSetup.AudioVolume); Now the file that's being recorded is: MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 6000.0 kbps (750.0 kbyte/s) The picture now looks like all the information is there, but the frame-rate is still wrong, and I can't see anywhere in the pvrinput sourcecode to change this. I tried taking the recorded 001.vdr, vdrsync.pl-ing it, and then ffmpeg recoding the mpegv2 file to 30fps, but this just made a mess too. As mentioned before, Freevo records and plays the channels fine - but I don't want to use Freevo, the OSD sucks. I can also stream the video device directly to mplayer 'mplayer /dev/video', which plays fine too. any other ideas??
