Watching TV

Can’t wait for Nintendo to release a TV tuner?
Use DSLinux instead:
aatv
mplayer -vo caca
With wifi, telnet, a linux PC, a TV card and either aatv or mplayer, you can watch almost live TV on your DS.

13 Responses to “Watching TV”

  1. stsp Says:

    Wow, the image quality is amazing ;)

  2. AndrewNeo Says:

    Hah, sneaky. Any chance it’ll look better in the future?

  3. Öhr GmbH Says:

    wow great done!
    i never thought videostreaming will be possible on ds.
    does it play sound too?

  4. Bucko Says:

    Before you know it I think Nintendo will end up hiring you lol!

  5. QazzaQY2K Says:

    okej if i get this right .. ur are streaming a feed from a pc with telnet ? OMG ;P thats kinda all the stuff i got and i want to try it too;P all tho i only got a SCSD ?

  6. Ahir Reddy Says:

    Can you leave instructions on how to do it.
    Thanks

  7. DynamicStability Says:

    Well obviously you telnet to your linux box and run mplayer -vo aa/caca /dev/video0 or aatv itself….

  8. john Says:

    That is really sweet. Insert applause here :)

  9. pepsiman Says:

    mplayer -quiet -vo caca tv:// -tv device=/dev/video0:driver=v4l2:norm=0:channel=68
    or
    aatv

  10. ben Says:

    Reason 356 to shop at Morrisons.

    Works with digital tv too:
    cacaxine ‘dvb://BBC ONE’

  11. parrot Says:

    Sweet. Cool lil’ Direct Line thing

  12. Sonny_Jim Says:

    Ptsch, gimme TTYQuake.

    /me is still alive, just totally busy

  13. JHFGHG Says:

    BETTER USE GBA TV TUNNER, MODIFIED TO FIT IN THE SLOT2,

    IT WORK, LOOK AT YOUTUBE.

    BY THE WAY, TV TUNNER FOR DS WILL NOT BE RELASED IN USA OR EUROPE, AND IN FACT IT SUXS BEACAUSE YOU CAN’T SEE REAL TV CHANNELS, JUST WORK TROUGHT A SPECIAL WAY TO RECEIVE SIGNAL, SOMETHING LIKE 3G