From 15c7812e295d953e96cb0a25f44e6728822f8b30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: voroshil Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:18:55 +0000 Subject: Teletext documentation git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@24604 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/xml/en/tvinput.xml | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 91 insertions(+) (limited to 'DOCS') diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/tvinput.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/tvinput.xml index 549c24cda3..6bd902a68e 100644 --- a/DOCS/xml/en/tvinput.xml +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/tvinput.xml @@ -185,4 +185,95 @@ to a hardware limitation. + + + + + +Teletext + + +Teletext is currently available only in MPlayer for v4l and v4l2 drivers. + + + +Implementation notes + + +MPlayer supports regular text, graphics and navigation links. +Unfortunately, colored pages are not fully supported yet - all pages are shown as grayscaled. +Subtitle pages (also known as Closed Captions) are supported, too. + + + +MPlayer starts caching all teletext pages upon +starting to receive TV input, so you do not need to wait until the requested page is loaded. + + + +Note: Using teletext with causes strange colors. + + + + +Using teletext + + +To enable teletext decoding you must specify the VBI device to get teletext data +from (usually /dev/vbi0 for Linux). This can be done by specifying + in your configuration file, like shown below: +tv=tdevice=/dev/vbi0 + + + +You might need to specify the teletext language code for your country. +To list all available country codes use +tv=tdevice=/dev/vbi0:tlang=-1 +Here is an example for Russian: +tv=tdevice=/dev/vbi0:tlang=33 + + + + + + + +Teletext hot keys + + + + + + Key + Description + + + + + X + Switch teletext display on/off + + + C + Cycle through teletext rendering modes (opaque, transparent, inverted opaque, + inverted transparent + + + Left/Right + Go to previous/next teletext page + + + PageUp/PageDown + Go to next/previous teletext subpage + + + digits + Enter teletext page number to jump to + + + + + + + -- cgit v1.2.3