Re: DViCO Card?

> >So what is people's favorite low-level way of recording to disk?  I used
>
> tzap -r TV  2>/dev/null &
> cat < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > file.ts is the most error-resistent way
> to record

That seems to work...  mplayer has a way of doing that too:

mplayer -dumpfile r1.ts -dumpstream dvb://"ABC HDTV"

But neither one plays with mplayer, even though mplayer seems to recognize
that its a Transport Stream:

$ mplayer r1.ts
MPlayer dev-CVS-050210-12:30-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6,
Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE


Playing r1.ts.
TS file format detected.
DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -1,
PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=2307)...NO AUDIO!  NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 0
Opened TS demuxer, audio: ffffffff(pid -1), video: 10000002(pid
2307)...POS=2818
12
VIDEO:  MPEG2  1440x1088  (aspect 3)  25.000 fps  11500.0 kbps (1437.5
kbyte/s)
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local
display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 1440 x 1088 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 1440 x 1088 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 1440x1088 => 1934x1088 Planar YV12
aspect: Warning: no suitable new res found!