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

Ronnie Beck wrote:

>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:
>
>
>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
>  
>

since I added multi-card support in mplayer the -dvbin file= option
can't work anymore because any card type has a specific configuration file.
You should channels.conf or channels.conf.<type> instead