On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > My first post here as a newcomer to the field of video capture. > I have installed a Hauppauge pvr-150 in my PC running Ubuntu 9.10. I > wish to use it to convert my stack of video tapes to DVD before my > ageing video recorder dies. > > With a bit of googling I learnt that I should install ivtv-utils and > am able to set the input channel to the composite i/p with > v4l2-ctl --set-input=2 > > I was then very pleased to find that, due to the hard work of many out > there over the years, I am able to type > cat /dev/video0 > myfile.mpg > to capture the signal to an mpg file, or > vlc pvr:///dev/video0 to see it live in VLC > > I am sure that there a way that I can view it and record it at the > same time but I have not managed to work out how. Any help would be > much appreciated. >
Run the cat in one terminal. Then use your favorite viewer to view the file the cat produces in a second terminal. It should not matter that the file is being appended to. John John _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
