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I have a question about the Vidwhacker screensaver. In the comment on |
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the Settings tab for screensaver settings in Gnome, it says that |
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vidwhacker "works really well if you just feed live broadcast TV into |
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it." I'm a little confused on how to set this up. I have a TV card |
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installed, and MythTV works great. My TV-in device is /dev/v4l/video0. |
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When I specify this in the image directory text box, I get an error from |
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xscreensaver when I ask to preview Vidwhacker, saying the directory |
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doesn't exist. I go back to the text box and change the value |
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to /dev/v4l and preview again. Now it tells me that there are no files |
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in /dev/v4l. Here's an ls of /dev/v4l: |
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michael@camille ~ $ ls -l /dev/v4l |
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total 0 |
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crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 64 Jun 1 13:07 radio0 |
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crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 224 Jun 1 13:07 vbi0 |
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crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 Jun 1 13:07 video0 |
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crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 24 Jun 1 13:07 video24 |
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crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 32 Jun 1 13:07 video32 |
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Am I setting this up wrong? I just think it would be cool to have the |
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currently selected TV channel as my screensaver. If this can't be done |
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with Vidwhacker, can it be done with something else? |
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