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hello i have an ATI AIW 128 pro with cable tv in...i was wonder what commands to use... ive looked at the mplayer documentation and have been trying to watch tv through my installed linux but to no avail.. :-( ..if u would be so kind and tell me or give me links i would be extremly happy :-) thx...

Have you tried using the TV menu in MoviX?
If you don't see it, it means that some module is missing.
Let me know!

sorry for the late reply....I've looked through the menus but didnt find anything for TV???
also i am making a MoviX BOX! its a pentium I 233mhz 64mb ram...and ill be using this video card....but i remember reading something where u said u think a 4x cdrom drive will work but didnt have time to test it..well i tried it with a 4x cdrom drive....it works _but_ the movies plays slooooww...i tried a couple AVI's and a VCD and they both play really slow...i didnt know whether it was the cpu or what so i put in a 32x 12x 32x CDRW drive and they worked!! so im thinking a 4x CD drive is to slow..
also heres the documentation so far http://members.aol.com/darkhawkil/0MoviX/MoviX.html ....e-mail me and tell me what u think...also if anybody else looks at this and has any ideas feel free to post in this forum.. thank u :-)
-Erik

> I've looked through the menus but didnt find anything for TV???
It should be in the "play" menu. I'll make investigations, but this month I'm so busy that I can't promise anything, most likely I'll be able to take care of it in February.

> so im thinking a 4x CD drive is to slow..
thanks a lot for the test and for the posting!

Docs development seems pretty good to me, it is a great relief for me to know that now someone is taking care of them!
Let me know when they'll be more or less complete because there are a few people that may want to translate them in several languages.

Thanks a lot for your help,
Roberto

I also dont have a TV option in the play menu. I have a ATI rage All-in-Wonder 128 too, and I have yet to even get the card working under a full install of Redhat 8. Even under XP if I want to stream the video it takes me a few hours of tinkering to get it working...

Hmm... I checked and found out that ATI uses a chipset for TV-out that it is not supported by Linux.
The only hope to activate it is under X using the gatos X drivers from gatos.sf.net.

If you are still interested, I'll ask you to make tests on your PCs around March (can't make it sooner).

Hmm... that might explain my strange "blotchy" colors when using my 8MB ATI card and video out...

Time to pull out the old scan converter. :)

(Is the MACH64 chipset still going to be more valuable than a geforce 2 card? Or since I'm using a scan converter, should I use the geforce card?)

Thanks Roberto,
-Shawn

No, sorry, I wrote TV-out only for distraction, what I meant really is TV-in!
The TV-out should be fine (but I can't check it because I have no TV :-) while TV-in cannot work except under X-windows.

>No, sorry, I wrote TV-out only for distraction,
>what I meant really is TV-in!

Ahh... that is a difference. My fault, I didnt 'read the whole thread, just saw the message in my "email monitoring"

>The TV-out should be fine (but I can't check it because

Ok. I still haven't checked if teh scan converter looks different than the TV-out. I don't know why stuff looked blotchy. I might try the onboard video too -- I have no idea what it is, I guess just intel 810 integrated video... Probably no acceleration for that. :)

>I have no TV :-) while TV-in cannot work except

In many ways I envy you for that. :)

-Shawn

Hey could someone explain to me how to make the tv-in work? I have tv in the menu, i hit it, but then how do i set the channels?

TV-in is still very rough.
In the rc1 version, you can choose your chanlist with the Edit->TV menu and then you can change channel using the h and l keys.
I hope that someone will find eventually some time to improve it (I don't use it much).

Is there a way that I can modify the thingy that it knows all my frequencies? Here in the netherlands each town has different frequencies for the channels, is there a file that i can stuff all the frequencies in for my "channelset"?

There is a Linux program called "scantv". It's not on the MoviX CD but it should be included in most distributions (it's a part of xawtv), also in Knoppix if you don't want to install Linux.

You can use that to detect your channels. It writes a file "/home/<your username>/.xawtv; this file contains the channel names and numbers. Many Linux TV applications use this file for the channel list, but unfortunately, MPlayer doesn't. So you need to give MPlayer the parameters of the channels you care about manually. The format is described here:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/#tv_tips

OK, here is a simple script to convert your .xawtv file to an mplayer "channels=" line:

----------------------------------------------------------
#! /bin/bash

# Converts a .xawtv file to an mplayer chanlist

# usage: xawtv2chanlist <.xawtvfile>

perl -pwe 's/^\[([a-zA-Z0-9 .-]+)\].*\n/$1/s' $1 \
| grep 'channel *= *[A-Z0-9]*$' \
| perl -pwe 's/^(.+)channel *= *([A-Z0-9]+)\n/$2-$1,/' \
| perl -pwe 's/ /_/g' \
| perl -pwe 's/,$//'
----------------------------------------------------------

You can insert its output into ~/.mplayer/config, e.g.:
tv=width=720:height=576:driver=v4l:chanlist=europe-west:channels=E7-ORF1,E11-ORF2,E5-Wohnpark-TV,E5-WPTV,46-ATV,44-Sat1,48-RTL
or add it to the command line.

I am able to use TV-in on my MoviX 0.8.1 box to watch channels. My problem is, what do I need to do in order to use TV-in to watch my Composite 1 input.
If I enter it in .xawtv channel list the way it should be done, it is skipped in the channel list when I run TV option in MoviX menu.
How should Composite1 input be configured in MoviX to actually use it as a channel?

> How should Composite1 input be configured in MoviX to actually use it as a channel?

You should edit movix.pl and change the line

my $tv_line = "-tv on:driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0:width=640:height=480:chanlist=$tv_chanlist";

in

my $tv_line = "-tv input=1:on:driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0:width=640:height=480:chanlist=$tv_chanlist";

I could find no doc about it but the following is printed by mplayer before starting to play TV:

Inputs: 4
0: Television: tuner audio tv camera (tuner:1, norm:pal)
1: Composite1: audio camera (tuner:0, norm:pal)
2: S-Video: audio camera (tuner:0, norm:pal)
3: Composite3: audio camera (tuner:0, norm:pal)

Pls let me know if it works and I will add some way to let users set somehow the 'input' option from the MoviX menu!

It has actually worked for selecting the input source. I have chceked, adding line input=0 works for tv channels, setting it to 1-3 displays the selected input (no adjustment or channel change available).
You may add the option for selecting input source in MoviX TV Options menu as list of 4 sources modyfying parameter input in movix.pl script and all should be fine.

I have not been able to see the correct image from my camera though, but I think it is the result of my TV card type (I assume incorrect auto-detection), that is to be checked yet. The input source change is visible though, only the image quality is bad ( I can see something on screen, but in 16 flippering windows instead of correct, single image).

So, is there any chance of the Gatos X drivers being integrated somehow into MoviX or MoviX2?

XFree86 4.4.0 was recently released. If Gatos will compile against it I will include it.

Looks like they just made some 4.4.0 drivers. (No AIW Pro support yet, but perhaps in time...)

http://gatos.sourceforge.net/

Thanks, I'll give a look to them and try to add them to rc2.