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1. 
   Fotis

   January 14th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
   

   I am sending you the result of issuing the command you tipped.

   $ mplayer -cache 128 -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc rawi420 -vo xv tv://
   MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
   CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 13)
   CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
   Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
   Option msglevel: Unknown suboption 5
   Warning unknown option msglevel at line 5
   mplayer: could not connect to socket
   mplayer: No such file or directory
   Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

   Playing tv://.
   Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)
   TV file format detected.
   Selected driver: v4l
   name: Video 4 Linux input
   author: Alex Beregszaszi
   comment: under development
   =================================================================
   WARNING: YOU ARE USING V4L DEMUXER WITH V4L2 DRIVERS!!!
   As the V4L1 compatibility layer is broken, this may not work.
   If you encounter any problems, use driver=v4l2 instead.
   Bugreports on driver=v4l with v4l2 drivers will be ignored.
   =================================================================
   Selected device: Sirius USB2.0 Camera
   Capabilites: capture
   Device type: 1
   Supported sizes: 48×32 => 640×480
   Inputs: 1
   ioctl get channel failed: Invalid argument
   ioctl set chan failed: Invalid argument
   ioctl set chan failed: Invalid argument
   Error: Cannot set norm!
   Selected input hasn’t got a tuner!
   ioctl set picture failed: Invalid argument
   The ‘outfmt’ of ‘Planar I420′ is likely not supported by your card

   MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: demux_open
   - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
   Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a ‘gdb’ backtrace and
   disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
   - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn’t happen.
   It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
   gcc version. If you think it’s MPlayer’s fault, please read
   DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can’t and
   won’t help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

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2. 
   thugangel

   September 10th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
   

   Fotis, use v4l2 instead of v4l. Also, dropping “-vc rawi420″ would help.

   mplayer -cache 128 -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480 -vo xv tv://

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