On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19 February 2010 14:52, John Drescher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Well that is nice and simple, I should have thought of that.  Is there
> a solution that would allow me to pause the recording to skip adverts
> for example?
>
mythtv

www.mythtv.org

John

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