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
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