On Wednesday 18 November 2009 02:42:30 pm Tony Ross wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 15:07 -0800, Peter Hollenbeck wrote: > > If the PVR-500MCE is like the PVR-250 it has a 1/8" audio input jack. > > The PVR-500 thankfully doesn't have such a connection, as the RCA audio > inputs are more easily dealt with. I have a composite RCA cable from the > VHS player to the Hauppauge card and just unplug the yellow video and > use an s-video cable for input to the card, hence the nature of my > original question. Thank you Andy for the simple and elegant solution. > > > I have been trying for many days to capture analog video from a VCR > > using a PVR-250 and any software I can find, on Linux or Windows. (VLC > > and mencoder on Linux). The only thing that has worked so far is > > Hauppauge WinTV v6 on Windows. Can't make anything work on Linux. > > Please post your results for those of us struggling > > I've been using the ivtv software/firmware to capture the /dev/video[01] > output to hard disk on a Linux CentOS 5.4 machine, and am using > qdvdauthor to create the DVDs with menus etc. and am quite happy with > the results. > > In order to assist with the start/stop of the recording and positioning > of the tape, I need to watch the video stream while it's being saved to > disk however, and couldn't figure out how to do that with either mplayer > or cat, so I am trying to use MythTV and am meeting with some some > success there using the composite video input, but have yet to > accomplish the s-video input. > > MythTV not a trivial task for me to either understand or implement, and > your use of the term "struggling" is an understatement in my case. The > gui is incredibly non-intuitive, and even after many days of struggling > I still have difficulty navigating and understanding the structure, > which seems overly complicated for my very simple need of watching the > video stream at the same time as it's being recorded to disk. > > If anyone has a better solution for watching the /dev/video[01] stream > while it's being saved to disk I would be very grateful to hear from > you, even though it's somewhat off-topic in the ivtv-users list. > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
cat /dev/video0 | tee <output file> | mplayer - where <output file> is the file you want to record to. Seems to work ok w/ my PVR-500. Ben _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
