[streaming] Re: Problems streaming the somposite input from a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150

[Alex Antropoff]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:14:12PM +0100, Thomas Haas wrote:
TH> Hello everybody,
TH> 
TH> i am completely new to VLC and i am currently trying to stream the input of
TH> my WinTV PVR 150 over LAN via HTTP. I have connected a camera to the
TH> composite input and i now try to get a picture in VLC.
TH> 
TH> I installed the modules ivtv (driver for the WinTV card) and the firmware. I
TH> also installed the v4l2 module. All modules are running and i have a device
TH> /dev/video0 which should be the TV card.
TH> 
TH> When i open the VLC and try to get a picture i get the following error
TH> message:
TH> 
TH> [00000269] v4l demuxer error: mmap unsupported
TH> 
TH> This is the output with no audio device set.
TH> When i set an existing audio device i get the following message:
TH> 
TH> [00000289] alsa audio output error: write failed (Daten?bergabe unterbrochen
TH> (broken pipe))
TH> 
TH> OK. The sound does not interest me because the camera i am using is a
TH> digicam and it does not gave a microphone and for my applicaiton i just need
TH> the pictures.
TH> 
TH> Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem with the unsupported mmap
TH> ? I read a lot about this problem in the internet but i could not find an
TH> answer.
You must use pvr access module to grab video/audio from pvr150.
Read http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch10.html#id299414

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Regards, 
Alex Antropoff

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