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2007-12-28 01:25 - PVR support in MPlayer
When toying around with mplayer and my Hauppauge PVR350, I got the following error when trying to play something:
[pvr] failed with errno 22 when reading 2048 bytes
[pvr] read 0 bytes
The error kept repeating. The solution was to give the proper bitrates. I used the following for DVD-compatible rates in my ~/.mplayer/config file:
[ivtv]
mpegopts=format=dvd
tv=normid=0:device=/dev/video0:width=720:height=576
pvr=arate=48000:abitrate=384:vbitrate=6000000:
vpeak=9600000:aspect=1:fmt=dvd
of=mpeg=1
To play, use mplayer pvr:// -profile ivtv. You can also copy this section to your mencoder config file and store the video stream from your PVR card to a dvd-compatible MPEG2 stream. I've successfully burnt such a file using KMediaFactory and K3B.
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Thank you so much for this! Took me hours to search for this. Kept finding the same threads in Google, the most promising one peters out with "let's take this offline." Ugh.....
Well, now it works. Thank you!
by - 9 months, 1 week ago.
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Thanks. I was wondering what that was for months. I had used a workaround. This worked great; thanks for the post.
by Seth - 1 year ago.