Love to but I deleted them from vdr already. I don't know if FFMPEG was actually doing anything because I couldn't get anything to show -- it was encoding.. what who knows. I'm in Canada btw -- is that the same area?
Well, the same landmass and TV standard :) I'm a New Zealander, lived in the UK for several years using VDR with DVB-T, moved to Washington 3 months ago
I have a Hauppauge WinTV to GO card -- basic analog no encoder and not supported by ivtv. Apparently its much easier if you have a card supported by ivtv.
Mine's a WinTV-USB2 - similarly not supported by ivtv
KOMOTEST1:4:B7C12D0:C:0:301:300:0:32001:0:0:0:0
Where did you come up with the 301/300?
I've made some changes to the above that I used to get some output. I also use C0 rather then C12 but that varies depending on your card. You also need to put in a frequency instead of the '4'. I don't recall the program I used to get them but I know xawtv will show them as well.
I can't get xawtv to work for FC5 :( I wasn't sure about the frequency - as tvtime just stores 'channel 4' and not the frequency. So didn't know what the thing wanted in the way of channel definitions.
When you run VDR at the console, you should see it trying to start ffmpeg -- does it give you an error? I also had issue where the plugin had configured PAL resolutions and no NTSC resolutions so FFMPEG had issues with the mixed command line for NTSC but a PAL resolution that was incompatible. It involved modifying the source code to get it past that point. If this is the blocker, it should give you an error in the vdr output though...
I don't get anything on the console when I change channels???
Also, did you apply all the recommended patches from the vdr wiki page? I use the German pages because the english ones are way out of date for most of the plugins.
I applied all the patches against VDR - but no others.
Norm
Simon