Does -dvbin file=<channels file> not work with mencoder?

Hi,

I am trying to tell mecoder to use a specific channels file to record
from my DVB card.  But it seems to be ignoring the specified file.  See
bellow:

[rony@goethe public]$ mencoder -dvbin file=/etc/mplayer/channels.conf -o
SBS_DVB.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=4096 -vf
pp=lb,hqdn3d=6:6:20 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 "dvb://7 Digital"
MEncoder 1.0pre7try2-4.0.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices  (Family: 8, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: Type: 8 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with
--disable-runtime-cpudetection.
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Failed to open frameno.avi
DVB CONFIGURATION IS EMPTY, exit
Failed to open dvb://7 Digital
Cannot open file/device.

Exiting...
[rony@goethe public]$ ls -la /etc/mplayer/channels.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4501 Jul 30 16:04 /etc/mplayer/channels.conf
[rony@goethe public]$

Now, when I run this as another user, who has a ~/.mplayer/channels.conf
file, it works just fine.

Is there something that I am doing wrong or does it not work in this
version?

Thanks in advance.

Ronnie Beck