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</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Use the <option>channels</option> option. An example:
<screen>-tv on:channels=26-MTV1,23-TV2</screen>
Explanation: using this option, only the 26 and 23 channels will be usable,
and there will be a nice OSD text upon channel switching, displaying the
channel's name. Spaces in the channel name must be replaced by the
&quot;_&quot; character.
</para>

<informalexample>
<para>
Dummy output, to AAlib :)
<screen>
mplayer -tv on:driver=dummy:width=640:height=480 -vo aa<!--
--></screen>
</para>
</informalexample>

<informalexample>
<para>
Input from standard V4L:
<screen>
mplayer -tv on:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc rawi420 -vo xv<!--
--></screen>
</para>
</informalexample>

<informalexample>

A more sophisticated example. This makes MEncoder capture the full PAL
image, crop the margins, and deinterlace the picture using a linear blend
algorithm. Audio is compressed with a constant bitrate of 64kbps, using
LAME codec. This setup is suitable for capturing movies.
<screen>
     mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \
     -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 \
     -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 \
     -vf crop=720:544:24:16,pp=lb -o output.avi
</screen>
</para>
</informalexample>

<informalexample>

video with the bitrate of 350kbps in high quality mode. The vqmax option
looses the quantizer and allows the video compressor to actualy reach so
low bitrate even at the expense of the quality. This can be used for
capturing long TV series, where the video quality isn't so important.
<screen>
     mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \
     -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:vhq:vqmax=31:keyint=300 \
     -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=48 \
     -vf crop=720:540:24:18,pp=tn/lb,scale=384:288 -sws 1 -o output.avi
</screen>
It's also possible to specify smaller image dimensions in the <option>-tv</option>
option and omit the software scaling but this approach uses the maximum available
information and is a little more resistant to noise. The bt8x8 chips can do the
pixel averaging only in the horizontal direction due to a hardware limitation.

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</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Use the <option>channels</option> option. An example:
<screen>-tv channels=26-MTV1,23-TV2</screen>
Explanation: using this option, only the 26 and 23 channels will be usable,
and there will be a nice OSD text upon channel switching, displaying the
channel's name. Spaces in the channel name must be replaced by the
&quot;_&quot; character.
</para>

<informalexample>
<para>
Dummy output, to AAlib :)
<screen>
mplayer -tv driver=dummy:width=640:height=480 -vo aa tv://<!--
--></screen>
</para>
</informalexample>

<informalexample>
<para>
Input from standard V4L:
<screen>
mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc rawi420 -vo xv tv://<!--
--></screen>
</para>
</informalexample>

<informalexample>

A more sophisticated example. This makes MEncoder capture the full PAL
image, crop the margins, and deinterlace the picture using a linear blend
algorithm. Audio is compressed with a constant bitrate of 64kbps, using
LAME codec. This setup is suitable for capturing movies.
<screen>
     mencoder -tv driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \
     -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 \
     -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 \
     -vf crop=720:544:24:16,pp=lb -o output.avi tv://
</screen>
</para>
</informalexample>

<informalexample>

video with the bitrate of 350kbps in high quality mode. The vqmax option
looses the quantizer and allows the video compressor to actualy reach so
low bitrate even at the expense of the quality. This can be used for
capturing long TV series, where the video quality isn't so important.
<screen>
     mencoder -tv driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \
     -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:vhq:vqmax=31:keyint=300 \
     -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=48 \
     -vf crop=720:540:24:18,pp=tn/lb,scale=384:288 -sws 1 -o output.avi tv://
</screen>
It's also possible to specify smaller image dimensions in the <option>-tv</option>
option and omit the software scaling but this approach uses the maximum available
information and is a little more resistant to noise. The bt8x8 chips can do the
pixel averaging only in the horizontal direction due to a hardware limitation.