tuning analog tuner card with vlc player

[nambirajan]

Hello,

I am from India. I am tuning a Philips SAA7134 based Analog tuner/ capture card with vlc palyer. I have installed Windows XP SP2 version in my system and using vlc player 0.09.8a. I have a problem in retriving and playing the old play list in the player. I shall explain the same as follows.
1. Select SAA7134 for video and Realtek HD audio for Audio in device configuration in Capture mode. In advanced option, select the same devices for video and audio, set video frame rate as 25 fps, country as india, channel as UHF 21, input as Antenna and TV as RF input and play. Now the player tunes to the freq. set and plays. I repeated the sequence to tune to more number of channels and watched. I saved the play list as channels.conf ( file type as .xspf ) in dektop. Now I closed the player and opened the application again. Now played without making any changes, now I watch the last channel watched. Now if press channel up or down there is no change, that is it plays the same old tuned channel. Now i loaded the channels.conf ile to the play list. Even now also the same thing repeats.

How can I do channel tuning by loading the playlist. save the playlist. Can anyone please help me to get rid of this problem.

Thanks.

[bicho.cl]

Same problem here...
Everything works fine, but after save playlist didn't work.
Same tunner chip SAA7134, I guess this is the problem, aditional the VLC can't work with audio direct from card.

Any idea?

Thanks

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Do you have a sample XSPF file somewhere? Unfortunately, it's a bit difficult for VLC developers to support analog TV as many parts of Europe have already switched over.

[bicho.cl]

Thanks for reply, here is the example playlist, works excelente when I created manually, one by one step: stream -> capture device -> stream...
I can use next or prev for change the channel, but after I save the playlist and close/open VLC and load the playlist nothing happend...

Thanks in advance
BTW this is my tunner card.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/" xmlns:vlc="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/ns/0/"> <title>Lista de reproducción</title> <trackList> <track> <location>dshow://</location> <extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0"> <vlc:id>0</vlc:id> <vlc:option>dshow-vdev=SAA7135 Analog TV Card</vlc:option> <vlc:option>dshow-adev=Realtek AC97 Audio</vlc:option> <vlc:option>dshow-caching=200</vlc:option> <vlc:option>sout=#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=800,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:duplicate{dst=http{mux=asf,dst=:8080/},dst=display}</vlc:option> <vlc:option>no-sout-rtp-sap</vlc:option> <vlc:option>no-sout-standard-sap</vlc:option> <vlc:option>ttl=1</vlc:option> <vlc:option>sout-keep</vlc:option> <vlc:option>dshow-tuner-channel=15</vlc:option> </extension> </track> <track> <location>dshow://</location> <extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0"> <vlc:id>1</vlc:id> <vlc:option>dshow-vdev=SAA7135 Analog TV Card</vlc:option> <vlc:option>dshow-adev=Realtek AC97 Audio</vlc:option> <vlc:option>dshow-caching=200</vlc:option> <vlc:option>sout=#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=800,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:display</vlc:option> <vlc:option>no-sout-rtp-sap</vlc:option> <vlc:option>no-sout-standard-sap</vlc:option> <vlc:option>ttl=1</vlc:option> <vlc:option>sout-keep</vlc:option> <vlc:option>dshow-tuner-channel=22</vlc:option> </extension> </track> <track> <location>dshow://</location> <extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0"> <vlc:id>2</vlc:id> <vlc:option>dshow-vdev=SAA7135 Analog TV Card</vlc:option> <vlc:option>dshow-adev=Realtek AC97 Audio</vlc:option> <vlc:option>dshow-caching=200</vlc:option> <vlc:option>sout=#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=800,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:duplicate{dst=http{mux=asf,dst=:8080/},dst=display}</vlc:option> <vlc:option>no-sout-rtp-sap</vlc:option> <vlc:option>no-sout-standard-sap</vlc:option> <vlc:option>ttl=1</vlc:option> <vlc:option>sout-keep</vlc:option> <vlc:option>dshow-tuner-channel=25</vlc:option> </extension> </track> </trackList> <extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0"> <vlc:item tid="0" /> <vlc:item tid="1" /> <vlc:item tid="2" /> </extension> </playlist>

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

You cannot pass stream output options or select input devices through playlist files. This is a security measure.

Regarding channel number, this is more of a bug in VLC for Windows.