# HG changeset patch
# User diego
# Date 1067777932 0
# Node ID 7d120a00fcf709a51b1c9e96a48c8224313c253a
# Parent 6ded767a528aed4273b628606d37b112a189c8ee
DVB section expanded based on a patch by Nico Sabbi that was committed to
the HTML docs long ago. Somebody forgot to sync and should start drinking
his share of Coke soon. Prime suspect is a developer whose name starts
with the letter 'D'.
diff -r 6ded767a528a -r 7d120a00fcf7 DOCS/xml/en/video.xml
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml Sun Nov 02 10:29:49 2003 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml Sun Nov 02 12:58:52 2003 +0000
@@ -1605,7 +1605,7 @@
MPEG decoders
-DVB
+DVB output and inputMPlayer supports cards with the Siemens DVB chipset
from vendors like Siemens, Technotrend, Galaxis or Hauppauge. The latest DVB
@@ -1632,6 +1632,7 @@
Hardware decoding (playing standard MPEG1/2 files) can be done with this command:
+
mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes file.mpg|vob
@@ -1700,6 +1701,92 @@
+Using your DVB card for watching Digital TV (DVB input module)
+
+ First you need to pass the dvb_shutdown_timeout=0
+ parameter to the kernel module dvb-core, or MPlayer
+ will die after 10 seconds.
+
+
+
+
+ You should also have the programs scan and
+ szap/tzap/czap installed; they are all included in
+ the drivers package.
+
+
+
+ Verify that your drivers are working properly with a program such as
+ dvbstream
+ (that is the base of the DVB input module).
+
+
+
+ Now you should compile a ~/.mplayer/channels.conf
+ file, with the syntax accepted by szap/tzap/czap, or
+ have scan compile it for you.
+
+
+
+ Make sure that you have have only Free to Air
+ channels in your channels.conf file, or MPlayer
+ will hang on the others.
+
+
+
+ To show the first of the channels present in your list, run
+
+
+
+ mplayer dvb://
+
+
+
+ If you want to watch a specific channel, such as R1, run
+
+
+
+ mplayer dvb://R1
+
+
+
+ To change channels press the h (next) and
+ k (previous) keys, or use the OSD menu (requires
+ a working OSD subsystem).
+
+
+
+ If your ~/.mplayer/menu.conf contains a
+ <dvbsel> entry, such as the one in the example
+ file etc/dvb-menu.conf (that you can use to overwrite
+ ~/.mplayer/menu.conf), the main menu will show a
+ sub-menu entry that will permit you to choose one of the channels present
+ in your channels.conf.
+
+
+
+ If you want to save a program to disk you can use
+
+
+
+ mplayer -dumpfile r1.ts -dumpstream dvb://R1
+
+
+
+ If you want to record it in a different format (re-encoding it) instead
+ you can run a command such as
+
+
+
+ mencoder -o r1.avi -ovc xvid -xvidenctopts bitrate=800 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -vf ci dvb://R1
+
+
+
+ Read the man page for a list of options that you can pass to the
+ DVB input module.
+
+
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