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Old 04-23-2003, 12:19 AM   #1
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Changing TV channels in mplayer/mencoder


Any ideas? I've tried the obvious up/down arrow keys and pgup and pgdn keys with no luck...

Also, I must be doing something wrong, so if anyone can pick apart my syntax and suggest something that'd be greatly appreciated (I will post the problem after the syntax):
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mencoder -tv on:chanlist=us-cable:channel=16:channels=13-Fox,11-UPN,16-WB,8-Disc:driver=v4l:width=720:height=480:norm=ntsc:forceaudio:amode=1:adevice=/dev/dsp  \
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1100 -oac mp3lame \
-lameopts cbr:br=128 -vop scale=512:340,pp=tn/lb -sws 1 -o output.avi
With that I am assuming that I will record channel 16; however it records the last channel played with mplayer specifically. It does not even default to the last channel played with xawtv, it goes with whatever mplayer last played.

If anyone has any suggestions or ideas, I'd appreciate reading them.

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Old 04-23-2003, 06:24 AM   #2
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like i said in that programming thread, mixing channels and channel is a no go afaik.

but why are you bothering to include a channels set when you're only going to record anyway? you can't change it half way through etc....

you might benefit from looking at my http://thirtythreeandathird.net/simple script, if it's still at that location to see how i do it. it's more indepth than what you're after but you should be able to see the core recording parameters easily enough.

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Old 04-23-2003, 09:23 PM   #3
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Thanks, I'm currently getting the required perl modules and will check out your 'simple.pl' script

However, if just playing tv with mplayer, how would one change channels?

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Old 04-24-2003, 03:13 AM   #4
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can i suggest an rtfm? i *think* the channel hotkeys are h for down and L for up.... not sure... at the moment m,player can't bind numberpad keys, i've spoken to the dev's about this and they're hopefully going to add it then. then it should be easy enough to have one button per channel like xawtv.

that script is only for england, might be worth flicking through the code though...
 
Old 04-24-2003, 08:31 AM   #5
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I did, actually that's where I got all my options from; however I must have missed the section on channel flipping

FYI, it's H and K for me.

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