On Friday 27 May 2005 16:04, Jason Snyder wrote:
Hi Hilary, There is a big difference between the WinTV-250 PVR and the WinTV-GO. The WinTV-GO DOES use the bttv drivers while the WinTV-250 PVR does not. I actually specifically went after the WinTV-GO specifically for this reason.
Ah, I hadn't realized that.
By the way I use mplayer to. I am actually stuck on a copy I custom compiled a while back (MPlayer-1.0pre5-pm.2.athlon.rpm) running under SuSE 9.2 because I cannot get the newer versions of mpalyer to initialize the capture card properly, SuSE 9.3 doesn't seem to come with the proper libraries, and I have been trying to avoid dependency hell. I have noticed under SuSE 9.2 and mplayer 1.0pre5 that if I first access the TV card under XawTV, close, and then open under mplayer 1.0pre5 it will work properly. Doing this on a mid range system (Athlon XP 3200) with filtering and encoding options up the ying yang yields results that are quite nice. I would like to hack a more recent version of mplayer to play well with TV tuners if I can find the time to do so.
Wish I could help you there. For 9.3 I used the packman package so you might want to try that one if you haven't already. http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=128
If you want to use the WinTV-250 PVR (mpeg2 encoder based as opposed to raw feed) you may want to check out MythTV. I have been reading on their website that they have been working on control modules for these types of cards.
I should. I tried it in 9.2 but I couldn't get it to compile properly. Dependancy hell. I've only had 9.3 running since Monday so I'm still tweaking things around. Good luck Hilary