one thing you might consider would be using dd, there you can specify a number of bytes to copy. As these cards deliver constant bitrate, you can calculate the number of bytes needed to be read. The commandline should be similiar to this:
dd if=/dev/video0 of=myvideo.mpg bs=1k count=100000 Trev Jackson wrote: > Hi Kyrre, > > I must admit I'm no expert, but a few times when I've wanted to record a late > program I've started it using cat /dev/video0 > myvideo.mpg > > I then used ps -aux to list all jobs and wrote down the job number. > > I then used crontab and the kill command to stop that job a bit after the > film > finished, then I could go to bed and leave it going. > > Best Regards > > Trev > > On Friday 14 Apr 2006 19:16, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> How can i time when a "cat" recording is about to start, and how long it >> should continue - without killing and starting it manually? >> >> Is there any bash command that could kill it for me after a set time, or >> some built-in tool in ivtv that does this (ivtv-encoder? What does this >> do?) >> >> --- Kyrre >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ivtv-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
