Thanks Ben. However, I forgot to mention, that I have no VGA-output on 
this machine. Just a secure shell..

I tried nearly every possible combination of mencoder-parameters, just 
to see if it works. :(

AFAIR, you need X if you want to use fxtv?


Ben Collver wrote:
> I have a bktr card that worked fine when I was using it.  The most basic
> utility I used was fxtv.  My notes show I invoked it like:
> fxtv -defaultInput svideo
> 
> Or, for mplayer:
> mplayer -vo x11 -ao null -tv norm=NTSC:driver=bsdbt848:device=/dev/bktr tv://0
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben