can mplayer in etch be used to watch TV?

From: Serena Cantor <qipaishi2006(at)yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Oct 31 2007 - 19:03:50 EDT

I can use xawtv in etch to watch TV, but am not happy with it, so I try mplayer. So far it does not work. Below is output:
(BTW: can you recommend other TV-watching packages in etch?)

$ mplayer driver=v4l tv://16 norm=PAL device=/dev/video0 >& output.txt

MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron A Mendocino/Pentium II Dixon (Family: 6, Model: 6, Stepping: 0) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing driver=v4l.
File not found: 'driver=v4l'
Failed to open driver=v4l.

Playing tv://16.
TV file format detected.
Selected driver: dummy
 name: NULL-TV
 author: alex
Selected input hasn't got a tuner!
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid

open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory.
[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.

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Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video VDec: vo config request - 320 x 200 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [xv] 320x200 => 320x200 Planar YV12 Selected video codec: [rawyv12] vfm: raw (RAW YV12)

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Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
Exiting... (Quit)

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Received on Wed Oct 31 19:04:10 2007