The command you give does not work. I'm sure no other TV program is running. Below are output by your command, followed by example at www.mplayerhq.hu
_________________________________________________________________ MEncoder dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner (Family: 6, Model: 7, Stepping: 3) CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. success: format: 9 data: 0x0 - 0x0 TV file format detected. Selected driver: v4l2 name: Video 4 Linux 2 input author: Martin Olschewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> comment: first try, more to come ;-) Selected device: BT848A video (Prolink Pixelview Tuner cap: Tuner rxs: MONO Capabilites: video capture video overlay VBI capture device tuner read/write streaming supported norms: 0 = PAL; 1 = NTSC; 2 = SECAM; 3 = PAL-Nc; 4 = PAL-M; 5 = PAL-N; 6 = NTSC-JP; 7 = PAL-60; inputs: 0 = Television; 1 = Composite1; 2 = S-Video; Current input: 0 Current format: YVU420 v4l2: current audio mode is : MONO Selected channel: 4 (freq: 77.250) Unable to open '/dev/dsp': No such file or directory Unable to open '/dev/dsp': No such file or directory Unable to open '/dev/dsp': No such file or directory v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped. ./tv3: line 4: 2618 ¶Î´íÎó mencoder -tv driver=v4l2:width=768:height=576:chanlist=china-bcast -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900:autoaspect=1 -vf scale,pp=lb -o output.avi tv://4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________ MEncoder dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner (Family: 6, Model: 7, Stepping: 3) CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. success: format: 9 data: 0x0 - 0x0 TV file format detected. Selected driver: v4l name: Video 4 Linux input author: Alex Beregszaszi comment: under development ================================================================= WARNING: YOU ARE USING V4L DEMUXER WITH V4L2 DRIVERS!!! As the V4L1 compatibility layer is broken, this may not work. If you encounter any problems, use driver=v4l2 instead. Bugreports on driver=v4l with v4l2 drivers will be ignored. ================================================================= Selected device: BT848A video (Lifeview FlyVideo Capabilites: capture tuner overlay clipping scales Device type: 171 Supported sizes: 48x32 => 924x576 Inputs: 4 0: Television: tuner audio tv camera (tuner:1, norm:pal) 1: Composite1: audio camera (tuner:0, norm:pal) 2: S-Video: audio camera (tuner:0, norm:pal) 3: Composite3: audio camera (tuner:0, norm:pal) Unable to open '/dev/dsp': No such file or directory ============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported ============= === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! === Cannot open demuxer. Exiting... --- On Mon, 11/3/08, Emanoil Kotsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Emanoil Kotsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: how to use mencoder to record TV program > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 9:40 PM > Serena Cantor wrote: > > > mencoder > >> > driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420:audiorate=44100:amode=1:audioid=1:adevice=/dev/dsp1:norm=PAL:normid=0:chanlist=europe-west > >> tv://<SOME_CHANNEL> -o out.avi > > hi, > > I missed the -tv indeed > > What about the mencoder commands there from the link > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/tv-input.html#tv-examples > > do they don't work? I guess no, because otherwise you > wouldn't be posting > here > > mencoder -tv > driver=v4l2:width=768:height=576:chanlist=china-bcast \ > -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 \ > -ovc lavc -lavcopts > vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900:autoaspect=1 \ > -vf scale,pp=lb -o output.avi tv://<CHANNEL> > > Can you try this command and replace <CHANNEL> with > the channel you want to > record? If you miss the channel then I guess the last one > you've tuned the > receiver will be captured. > > When recording no other application should be running that > uses your tv card > like xawtv or similar. May be you have tried to watch and > record at the > same time? If you want to do this you better start mencoder > to record the > stream and run mplayer output.avi to watch the stream while > recording. > > I changed the v4l to v4l2, because I think the howto is a > bit outdated. You > can try both if it's not working and if you want. I > also added the chanlist > and autoaspect option and instead cropping I use scale > filter. > > I hope this will work. Have a look at the output.avi file > and post output if > there are problems like you did now. > > regards > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
