[mpeg2] Re: Trying to get an Mpeg TS to work

[Samuel Rivas <samuel@dc.fi.udc.es>]

Ankit Kapasi wrote:
> 
>    I am currently a student attempting to implement a system that takes
>    in an NTSC video signal and then encodes it into MPEG2 stream. I have
>    a couple of questions and as much detail as you can provide would be
>    greatly appreciated.
> 
>    One thing is,l do I need to open a video0 and a video1? I am currently
>    opening video0 to set the video input format and set the tuning
>    frequency and then opening another device (video1) to access the TS
>    stream. However when I run this program that runs the tscap.c program
>    (included with MPEX drivers), I get an error which is "Not a TS"
 
  You are doing it in the correct way, /dev/video0 is for the video for
linux API and /dev/video1 returns a MPEG transport stream
> 
>    I have also tried the "cat /dev/video1" command I get a large file
>    that appears empty. It has a size but I cant see anytihg in it.

  What do you mean with "I can't see anything in it"? Perhaps you are
facing with one old problem of the driver that makes it to return
nothing but zeros. Try downloading a later version.

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