On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 18:02 -0500, David George wrote: > On 03/16/2005 05:46 PM, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
> >If I hooked up a VCR to save some tapes to disk (or even burn DVDs), how > >would I control that from mythtv? > > > > > There isn't an easy one-button way of doing this. Sometimes it is just > easier to press play on the VCR and type 'cat /dev/video > video.mpg'. > What I did once was setup an input source on one of my capture cards > called vcr and setup a dummy source for it. Interesting, I'm assuming this only works with hauppage pvr cards? ? What does a file read on /dev/video do for ordinary cards? Is the format parsable? cat /dev/video0 does manage to completely corrupt my ssh window beyond even a 'reset' ;p On a more serious note I was thinking of eventually making a gpl library for Labview for manipulating video. If I can just do a read of that 'file' and run it through a function or what not to extract it out to RGB or YUV, then it would likely be enough. (Note that Labview is a visual programming language some scientists and engineers like.) If would of course have to use existing linux code. Of course there isn't a high demand for this, but it might be nice for some people who would need it to have an alternative to the expensive national instruments package. Of course this is getting off topic.. > -- Robert Denier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PhD Electrical Engineering (May 2005) University of Missouri-Rolla http://www.finiteinfinity.com
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