[vdr] Re: v4l - DVB TV picture on monitor

[DOm <angelus.dei@tiscalinet.it>]

On Mon, 26 May 2003 18:03:13 +0200
Alexw <alexw@undercover.mine.nu> wrote:

> 
> Hello folks,
> 
> I am trying to get the tv picture on my monitor. The PC is not fast
> enough (266 MHz) to handle the MPG2 decoding in software.
> I known that the card is able to use graphic overlay to display the
> picture on the monitor. This is quite simple to achieve (normally)
> using the v4l interface. But I am unable to get "useful" information.
> I've already tried the v4l and v4l2 stuff, the mplayer -tv option with
> v4l2, the xawtv suite and the apps/test/video. Today I've discovered
> that there is a saa7146_v4l.o module. I am able to load it but this is
> not helping me in anyway.
> 
> So, how can I display the output of the DVB adapter on the monitor?
> (using the overlay capability of the card)?????????
> 
> Why do I want the overlay, because it can also display the OSD ;-)
> 

try with xawtv.
or use drivers from http://www.metzlerbros.de/mbros/dvb/ if you want to
use mplayer/mencoder

Bye,
   ANgelus.


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