Hi,
I am currently using VDR with a Nexus-S FF card in an NTSC environment. For a long time, I could never get the correct tv standard (NTSC) while trying to watch television via VDRAdmin. I recently noticed that once I stream VDR using VLC and its v4l interface, something in /dev/video0 gets set to NTSC, because from then on, the video is correctly set to NTSC mode and I can watch television via the VDRAdmin television interface. Here is the VLC command I'm using:
vlc -vvv v4l:/dev/video0:adev=/dev/dsp:audio=1:norm=ntsc:size=352x240 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=64,acodec=mp3,ab=48,deinterlace}:std{access=http,mux=asf,dst=:6789}'
Notice how VLC is directly interacting with the video from /dev/video0 (this method only works with FF cards). Somehow, the v4l interface from VLC is setting the tv standard properly for /dev/video0 and fixing VDRAdmin for NTSC. Anyone have an idea whats going on? The firmware is set to NTSC as soon as the card tunes to a NTSC channel. Why would /dev/video0 not be set to NTSC until I stream it with VLC?
Best Regards.