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

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Mon, 2003-05-26 um 21.49 schrieb DOm:
> 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
> 

You can also use KVDR, which displays V4L in a X-Window (KDE only). It
has been explicitely developed for VDR.

The make insmod loads all necessary modules.

Rene



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