Re: DViCO Card?

Greg Bell wrote:

>>>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:
>
>
>==========================================================================
>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!
>
>  
>

video is correctly identified, maybe there's something wrong with that 
resolution.

try to add -vc ffmpeg12 eventually followed by -lavdopts lowres=1