Watching TV: a simpler way

May 16, 2007 [Tech]

MPlayer is a black art. GMPlayer, doubly so.

It turns out this does the job much better than my previous hacks:

#!/bin/bash
gmplayer -cache 2048 -zoom "dvb://$1"

It's still not perfect for radio over digital TV, though - you get an empty window where the picture should be, and the cache is far too large for radio.