Mencoder

[newbie at poq.co.za]

> On Wednesday 29 October 2008 08:48:06 newbie at poq.co.za wrote:
>> >> On Friday 24 October 2008 08:40:04 newbie at poq.co.za wrote:
>> >>> Hi There
>> >>>
>> >>> I have a Brooktree chipped card. It's got 4 video inputs.
>> >>> I'm trying to record video, no audio from all 4 channels
>> >>> of the card using mencoder. I use fxtv to display video
>> >>> on the seperate channels. I get video on all of them. This
>> >>> is the command I use
>> >>>
>> >>> fxtv -disableDirectV -inputFormat paln -deviceNumber 0
>> >>> fxtv -disableDirectV -inputFormat paln -deviceNumber 1
>> >>> fxtv -disableDirectV -inputFormat paln -deviceNumber 2
>> >>> fxtv -disableDirectV -inputFormat paln -deviceNumber 3
>> >>>
>> >>> So i got video on all of them, but when I record using
>> >>> mencoder I only get video on the first device. Device
>> >>> (1,2 and 3) got no video(blue screen). But from fxtv
>> >>> it works fine.
>> >>>
>> >>> mencoder -tv
>> >>> device=/dev/bktr0,/dev/tuner0:driver=bsdbt848:width=640:height=480:norm
>> >>>=pal tv:// -o tv.avi -ovc lavc -nosound
> ...
>> I have found the problem. But I don't know how to fix it. Its inside the
>> patch 'patch-stream-tvi_bsdbt848.c' in mplayer's port folder. There is a
>> hardcoded variable "   +priv->btdev = strdup("/dev/bktr0");  ". If I
>> change it for example /dev/bktr7, That channel works fine.
>>
>> Can anyone please help me to fix this. I want mplayer/mencoder to except
>> my
>> input from console, not a hardcoded variable in the source.
>
> The patch doesn't seem to be correct. The device parsed in
> tvi_init_bsdbt848()
> gets overwritten in init().
>
> Removing this line from init() should fix it:
> priv->btdev = strdup("/dev/bktr0");
>
> --
> Stefan
>

Hi There

Thanks Stefan, got it working. Thanks a lot.

lou