Ehm... According to previous posts here, constant bitrate is one thing these card *doesn't* deliver... So i think ill stick with sleep.
fre, 14.04.2006 kl. 22.47 skrev David Arendt: > 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 _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
