On 19 February 2010 16:03, John Drescher <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
I did look at that but it seemed to be a bit of overkill for converting video tapes. I can't use the TV on the pvr-150 as we only have digital TV here. Never mind, I can post process the files if I think it is worth the effort. Many thanks for the help Colin _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
