[vdr] Re: How to play HDTV files ?

[Joerg Riechardt <J.Riechardt@gmx.de>]

Gregoire Favre wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:08:19PM +0100, Joerg Riechardt wrote:
> Hello again :-)
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> > would you please post your .xawtv?
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> Yes, you could find it under http://magma.epfl.ch/greg/linux/.xawtv
thank you very much!
> > I put now some channels I found with google in the .xawtv , and when I 
> > start xawtv I now get a picture, but it freezes immediately, showing a 
> > distorted TV picture. At least something.
>
> Well, that's strange, the channels are choosen by VDR, and xawtv only
> control VDR through SVDRP...
oh, I have run xawtv without vdr ...
I will try with vdr
> First you could try xawtv -noxv to see if it's work, and then with xawtv
> -hwscan you could find the right xv port, that you could give to xawtv
> with -xvport number. xvinfo is also a good tool to find out which xv
> port are available (it's common that xawtv don't use the right one).
>
> Please consider opening a new thread for a question which is not related
> to the subject (FF cards can't play HDTV at all) :-)
>
> I'll hope you'll get it working !!!
thanks a lot,
Jörg