Hi,
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 12:43, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:37:21AM +0100, Alexander Rawass wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > include a sort of programmable timertable, like a VCR, so that I don't
> > have to get up in the middle of the night to start/stop the recording or
> > change channel.
>
> Myself I've mostly given up TV recording and I always prefer DVD
> (as my TV signal is very far from DVD quality and storing noice
I have also strong doubts about the quality of my TV signal... ;-)
> on CD is't that cheap :)
Well, it's at least cheaper than DVD, and recording from TV is (yet)
completely legal in Germany, and there is also stuff (like some series, or
news, or especially political satire) that won't be available on DVD - and
well, there's these old b/w screwball comedies I like, which come from time
on time on TV, but these are so old movies that they aren't available on DVD,
too :-(
And it's intended to be a replacement for my VHS-videorecorder, to record
daily series/news etc.
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' :-)))
> > The patch in attachment contains my 'Timertable' patch.
>
> I've added you patch to CVS - however are you sure that
> this kind of functionality is the best one for this problem ?
>
> I'd have rather expected usage of avirec/mencoder or whatever command
> line tool via cron-tab for such thing ??
There are people that would rather like using cron and a commandline util for
recording, I know of some projects that use that combination.
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!
With other projects, I had all kinds of trouble (doesn't compile, doesn't run,
no A/V-sync, etc)
Can anyone recommend any other recording project - possilbly one with a GUI?
> > 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...
I'll also write in the next few weeks a few html-pages of end-user docu for
Avicap, and maybe to do a bit a of 'promotion' for Avicap.
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 ;-)))
I also think that many people might not have gotten yet the message, that
'realtime-divx-recording' is possible with linux.
The last articles I read in my german computer magazines were on the lines of
'use xawtv/other app. to record _uncompressed_ video, or buy a DVB card and
use vcr' , but no word of divx for analogue TV :-(
But it might only be my personal opinion, that the people don't know yet.. ;-)
> > Does anyone of you know how or if it is possible with either apm or else
> > to send the computer in sort of sleep mode, and re-activate it at a
> > specific time?
>
> My bios could also wakeup itself at given time - though I've not yet
> checked the possibility to program this though linux.
My BIOS seems to have that feature too, but I've never ever used apm or acpi
or anything else...
> > Cause I'd like my computer to use as a full-featured VCR, and a vcr goes
> > down to sleep between recordings....?
>
> I think there are already such project on sf - mainly based on mencoder -
> maybe you would like to check them first..
I checked some, and liked Avicap most... :-)
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??
> > BTW: some of the _p.cpp source code files in the samples/qtvidcap dir
> > seem to be auto-generated from a .ui File, but I didn't find these
> > Gui-Designer Data-Files.
>
> Maybe originaly yes - but they have been later rewriten by hand - by
> some commments from original autogenerated file were left.
Ok, so I'll edit them per hand.
I'm missing something like a 'never overwrite existing files' option.
> There have been zillion of problem with translating these files,
> bacause many users have had broken Qt installation - so I've decided
> to not use these files - also the GUI is coded much more efficiently
> then from autobuilder (at least in aviplay case :)
>
> > Please check them into CVS, because I'd like to add some more options or
> > 'comfort functions' ;-))
>
> You have write permisions to CVS - just be sure you are commiting
> compilable sources - and if you want to modify something outside
> qtvidcap tree - let me know first...
*thank you*
I'll swear to try my best, at least, kick me when I'm doing wrong ;-)))
The next things I'll do is to improve the timer/recording functions, they are
not yet totally fail- and fool-proof - they shouldn't crash, but the
behaviour is not yet totally clear...
Did you read my posting about suggestions on Avicap, and on the possibility of
a fullscreen/maximize implementation?
Alex
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