On 20 February 2010 17:14, faginbagin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Andy Walls wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:35 +0000, Colin Law 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 >> >> So I've wondered about this control: >> >> $ v4l2-ctl -L >> >> [...] >> stream_type (menu) : min=0 max=5 default=0 value=0 >> flags=update >> 0: MPEG-2 Program Stream >> 2: MPEG-1 System Stream >> 3: MPEG-2 DVD-compatible Stream >> 4: MPEG-1 VCD-compatible Stream >> 5: MPEG-2 SVCD-compatible Stream >> [...] >> >> I suspect, if you want to make actual DVD's playable by a DVD player, >> you may wish to set the stream_type=3 before starting the capture. >> >> I don't know for sure, as I have no personal experience. >> > > Yes, I can confirm that using that stream type for recordings produces mpg > files with the VOBUs required for DVD-Video, UNLESS you also have VBI > enabled (which adds the driver's private stream with sliced VBI data). But > if you don't want to capture closed captions or teletext and don't enable > VBI (forget the control for that), you can give the recorded file to a > patched version of dvdauthor and it will be happy. Just be sure the > resolution and bit stream are compatible with DVD standards. You can find > out more about the patch for dvdauthor here: > http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:ivtv_for_dvdauthor
I thought I would give that a go but the patch for dvdauthor supposed to be at http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/File:Dvdauthor-0.6.14-ivtv-patch.txt seems to have gone. Does anyone know where I can get it? Colin > > FWIW, this works with recordings from the cx18 driver (for HVR-1600s), too. > > HTH, > Helen > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
