It turned out the missing "piece" for me to get mplayer to work was to
specify that it should use NTSC instead of PAL.

my working command line:

mplayer -vo sdl -tv on:driver=bsdbt848:input=1:norm=NTSC:device=/dev/bktr:channel=50:width=640:height=480

I could not get it to work with any other -vo.

Ben

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 07:39:16PM -0800, collver1@attbi.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having trouble with my tv tuner board.  It works fine with fxtv, but
> the display is tiny, especially on my high resolution desktop.  If I
> maximize or resize fxtv, it no longer displays a picture.  I have also
> tried mplayer, but it errors with "Sorry, selected video_out device is
> incompatible with this codec."
> 
> Can anyone on this list verify whether fxtv displays anything after
> resizing the window?  Does anyone have a working set of command line
> arguments to use mplayer to display the video in X?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ben
> 
> NetBSD 1.6 (GLEN) #0: Tue Nov  5 06:18:21 PST 2002
>     root@glen:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GLEN
> cpu0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) (686-class), 551.31 MHz
> bktr0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0
> bktr0: interrupting at irq 12
> bktr0: Hauppauge Model 61201 B226
> bktr0: Hauppauge WinCast/TV, Philips NTSC tuner.
> 
> fxtv-1.03nb1	TV display application for Brooktree 848 compatible TV cards
> mplayer-0.90rc9	Software only MPEG-1/2/4 video decoder

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