| 1 | Since 0.6.8 it's possible to watch the TV in smplayer (dvb:// and tv://).
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| 3 | This document provides some info about how to do it.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | INTRO:
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| 6 |
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| 7 | smplayer doesn't include any option to scan for channels, so mplayer must be
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| 8 | configured to tune to TV channels.
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| 9 |
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| 10 | That means that the following:
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| 11 |
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| 12 | mplayer dvb://
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| 13 | or
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| 14 | mplayer tv://
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| 15 |
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| 16 | should work (should display a TV channel).
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| 17 |
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| 18 | And the following should tune to the specified channel:
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| 19 |
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| 20 | mplayer dvb://Channel_name
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| 21 | or
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| 22 | mplayer tv://Channel_name
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| 23 |
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| 24 |
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| 25 | DVB:
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| 26 |
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| 27 | The support for dvb in smplayer is intented for dvb-t (terrestrial). It can
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| 28 | work with dvb-c and dvb-s (cable and satellite) but it hasn't been tested.
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| 29 |
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| 30 | smplayer will look for the file ~/.mplayer/channels.conf.ter (or
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| 31 | ~/.mplayer/channels.conf if that doesn't exist), and the menus Open->TV and
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| 32 | Open->Radio will be populated with the channels there (the menu Open->Radio
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| 33 | will show the channels without video pid. Notice that for dvb-s and dvb-c the
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| 34 | check for audio and video pids will probably fail and all channels will end up
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| 35 | in the TV menu).
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| 36 |
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| 37 | If you don't have a ~/.mplayer/channels.conf you can create with scan (in
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| 38 | ubuntu is in the dvb-apps package):
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| 39 |
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| 40 | scan initial_file > ~/.mplayer/channels.conf
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| 41 |
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| 42 | The initial_file contains info about the frequencies that have to be scanned,
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| 43 | you'll find a lot in /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/ (use the one for your town).
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| 44 |
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| 45 | You can also use w_scan, which doesn't require any initial file.
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| 46 |
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| 47 |
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| 48 | TV:
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| 49 |
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| 50 | The support for analog TV (tv://) in smplayer is very basic (it can recognize
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| 51 | a tv:// stream as being a TV channel, but that's all) and configuration
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| 52 | has to be done manually.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | First you need some lines in your ~/.mplayer/config with the TV configuration
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| 55 | (driver, norms, frequencies...). Example:
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| 56 |
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| 57 | tv=driver=v4l:input=0:width=768:height=576:device=/dev/video0:audiorate=48000:n
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| 58 | orm=PAL:chanlist=europe-west:channels=46-TV_1,43-TV_2,50-TV_3,53-TV_4
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| 59 |
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| 60 | For more info take a look at the mplayer manpage.
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| 61 |
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| 62 | After that you have to introduce all channels in smplayer (Open->TV->Edit).
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| 63 |
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| 64 |
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| 65 | THE CHANNEL EDITOR:
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| 66 |
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| 67 | The channel editor allows you to add, modify and remove TV channels. You'll
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| 68 | see a table with all channels. Each channel contains 3 fields: icon, name
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| 69 | and stream. The name will appear in the menu, the stream is what mplayer will
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| 70 | open to tune the channel. Examples:
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| 71 |
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| 72 | ICON NAME STREAM
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| 73 | CNN dvb://CNN
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| 74 | BBC tv://TV_1
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| 75 | Webcam tv://
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| 76 |
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| 77 | The list of TV channels is saved to ~/.config/smplayer/tv.m3u8, while the
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| 78 | list of radio is saved to ~/.config/smplayer/radio.m3u8.
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| 79 |
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| 80 | Note 1: by default smplayer will scan the file ~/.mplayer/channels.conf on every
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