Hi Holger, Holger Waechtler wrote:
Two problems, both related to the fact that the instructions I have seen for using the Nova-T to watch TV on the computer have relied on dvbtune/dvbstream (piping to mplayer):
looks fine, your card tuned and everything is running, so what exactly is your problem?
I've tried this, and recording.ts remains an empty file. After 10 minutes, it still contained 0 bytes. This seems consistent with the problem of piping the output of dvbstream to mplayer. Basically, nothing seems to be coming out of this card (although it did under Windows).In order to record your stream you could for example use 'tzap -r': $ ./tzap -r BBC-1 [and let it run forever...] now tap in another console: $ cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > /tmp/recording.ts [recording.ts contains the your Transport Stream with Audio and Video data]
if you want to decode the stream to your X screen try:
$ cat /tmp/recording.ts | ts2ps 0 0 | mplayer -
[ts2ps is part of the mpegtools, you get it from http://www.metzlerbros.org/dvb/index.html]
[play with the mplayer options in order to get it decoded smoothly, I use something like 'mplayer -ao oss -vo xv -vfm ffmpeg -framdrop -vop lavcdeint - ', read the mplayer manpage for details]
I'd love to have a play, but I only have an empty file to decode :-(
well, enought testing - from now on you probably want to watch out for a more comfortable solution and add MPEG-software-decoding support to VDR or Enigma...I am not planning to hook this up to a TV, so I think VDR is not the right solution. I have not heard of Enigma. I will read up about it.