On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:48:11AM +0100, Alexander Rawass wrote:
> Hi,
>
> And it's intended to be a replacement for my VHS-videorecorder, to record
> daily series/news etc.
Well when I count all the current cost and problem with compression
of noice signal and reliablity of recording the good cheap Panasonic VCR
with ELP mode is still IMHO a bit better choice :)
> Some day, when the hardware is cheap and silent enough, and the software is
> ready, then I'll build my own 'personal digital video-recorder' :-)))
I'm also planning to do this - however there is not enough time for it
at this moment :(...
> But I prefer an application that comes with a GUI, and where I can monitor
> what I am recording, and where I can start/stop/change the recordings in the
> GUI, so this timertable patch is at least good for me (and a subset of
> people...)
>
> And anyway - Avicap was the first recording program that worked *fine* for me
> - no framedrops, nearly no A/V-sync problems, only 70-80% CPU usage when
> recording with DivX - great!
I guess there are number of people who would explain you how is
the mencoder the best ever-made tool for TV recording.
And then there is the next group with nvrec - and currentlu
I've not time to 'fight' in this battle field.
> > > After that time, Avicap calls system("sudo avicap-shutdown &") and exits
> > > Avicap.
> >
> > When I'll get to the box with TV card I'll recheck this.
>
> I think we shouldn't deliver with avifile/avifile this 'avicap-shutdown'
> script - if the user wants an application to shut down his computer, he
> should be able to edit/write that shutdown-script himself.
> If that feature 'works' per default, that could cause a lot of damage...
No problem
> Because I think that especially Avicap is a bit underrepresented, I didn't
> actually know that the avifile-library also contains a capture program, I
> only found that out by chance, so I think it's necessary to explain to the
> people that avifile contains not only a player program, but also
> capturing/recompression utilities - at least I was dumb enough to not know
> this ;-)))
Recompression is at the moment very broken - I'm actually writting
new 'core' for this - but it's very lenghty operation with
low priority at this moment - there should be new 'avicat' which
will be doing reliable those operation I need - and avirecompress
will use it.
> I also think that many people might not have gotten yet the message, that
> 'realtime-divx-recording' is possible with linux.
I think 'mplayer' team is doing enough PR about this :)
> Can mencoder encode without A/V-sync problems now from TV?
> The last time I tried it, I read on the mencoder-webpage that the TV-stuff
> can';t do A/V-syncing yet - has that improved??
I guess it should be possible - I've tried it one and it seemed to
be working (though as I've said the bitrate/picture quality is
very poor in case of non-cable TV signal)
It has looked like DivX3.11 gives slightly better results then ffmpeg.
> > some commments from original autogenerated file were left.
>
> Ok, so I'll edit them per hand.
You could also usually write better code and reuse some parts.
> behaviour is not yet totally clear...
>
>
> Did you read my posting about suggestions on Avicap, and on the possibility of
> a fullscreen/maximize implementation?
Well actually I've been thinking about this for quite some time -
maybe when I get faster CPU I'll play a bit with this
(and of course reasonable amount of free time for this)
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