[vdr] Re: Help needed

[Norm Dressler <norm@dressler.ca>]

Thanks for the feedback and help.  I'll try out Mplayer.  

I should have provided a bit of detail on my system -- I'm running Mandrake 10 
on a P-4 3.4Ghz (with hyperthreading), the Vision Card, 1Gb of RAM and a 
Nvidia FX 5600 with 256 Meg.  

In windows I use the Nvidia card's TV out to view on a TV.  Is that 
sufficient?  It uses Interlink or Elecard graphs to decode.  Interlink seems 
to be better then the others but regardless I seem to get skips and stutters 
when I try to record. (Methinks it's a windows issue -- not for here).

Nvidia drivers do allow for the video cloning to a TV-OUT.  I was going to 
look further into that after I was able to actually see something using VDR.

Does Mplayer allow me to get to the menus of VDR to do system setup and such?  
I can't even do that at this point.

Thanks again!
Norm

On Wednesday 26 May 2004 09:03 am, André Weidemann wrote:
> Hi Norm,
> Looks like you got pretty far.
> The thing with VDR is, that you either need a full featured card with an
> MPEG2 decoder or at least a card like yours and a Hollywood DXR3 card
> that has a Video-Out in order to use VDR.
> If you just want to watch Video with your card on you Linux desktop then
> there's an easy way.
> Download mplayer from http://www.mplayerhq.hu and compile it.
> There are a few applications comming with your drivers. Scan uns Szap...
> Simply change to "DVB/apps" run:
>
> mkdir ~/.szap
> cd scan && make
> ./scan -x 0 dvb-s/Astra-19.2E > ~/.szap/channels.conf
> cd ../szap && make
>
> After this you can tune to a channel using "./szap ZDF"
> Watching the channel works with "mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0" if I'm
> not mistaken.
> If this throws an error that /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 does not exist, you
> forgot to run the makedev.napi inside the DVB/drivers/ directory.
>
> Good luck,
>   André.


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