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[linux-dvb] Re: DVB Newbie



When I open up in Xine it is all choppy and blocky ... Could it be the
MPEG2 library that I have installed? I think I shall go and by a
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 card tomorrow so I have hardware encoding then.

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 20:22, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> On Friday 06 June 2003 21:37, you wrote:
> > Okay :) That held the stream open longer but I got a little more then
> > mplayer freezes up. I have tried the dvbtune -f ..... -m and heres the
> > output (all looks good) - This is so annoying :( My graphics card is a
> > GeoForce 4 Ti4600 (128Mb RAM) so all should be okay.
> >
> > Signal=12336, Verror=4371, SNR=48316dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
> > Signal=12336, Verror=4352, SNR=48573dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
> 
> Yeh, that's all looking perfect.
> 
> This time, instead of piping the data straight into mplayer, could you simply 
> redirect it to a disk-file?
> 
> $ dvbstream -o -ps 600 601 >test.mpg
> 
> Then do a 'ls -l' from another window to verify that the filesize is 
> continually increasing? This is just to rule out some bizarre problem with 
> your mplayer setup....
> 
> Afterwards, you might like to try playing the file back in mplayer, or xine, 
> or Windows Media Player, even :)
> 
> Of course, you'll need to have an MPEG2 demux/decoder installed on Windows...
> 
> gdh
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