[linux-dvb] /dev/video

[<mocm@convergence.de>]

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Stephan_D=B4Costa?= writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > does anybody know how to set up the driver, so that i can watch the output
 > at /dev/video i.e. with xawtv? When I tune a station with ntuxzap and start
 > xawtv i always get:
 > v4l: timeout
 > 
 > Also with tuxview I don't get a picture, but tuxview seems to hang. I can't
 > press any button there.
 > 
 > Please help.
 > 

This should work automatically, if you have a DVB-s card. If you have
a Nova card, you can't use /dev/video because the card has no MPEG
decoder. You'd need a software decoder.
It could also be that you do not have the node /dev/video. In that
case you need to create it with "mknod /dev/video c 81 0".
Another reason could be that there is another card or USB device that
uses /dev/video in that case the DVB card would use the next available
device, i.e. /dev/video1. But if you have another card using
/dev/video it should be possible to get a picture from that device.
That is all that comes to mind right now. For more help you should
have given more information about your system.

Marcus

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