Steve Adeff wrote: > On Tuesday 10 January 2006 12:15, N Dugas wrote: > >>Steve Adeff wrote: >> >>>On Monday 09 January 2006 22:03, N Dugas wrote: >>> >>>>Hi all, >>>> >>>>I've managed to get my Gentoo box (new Myth box in process of being >>>>built) to be able to see my DCT-6412. Recently, I recorded a PPV and >>>>would like to x-fer it to my PC to offload some PVR content (to make >>>>space for my series recordings). Until now, I've been able to play back >>>>the content and use test-mpeg2 to record it. With this PPV, I get a 0 >>>>length file. For fun, I stoped playback of my PPV recording and changed >>>>channel. The file size started increasing. Is there a way for me to >>>>tell if my recording is protected and therefore will not play over the >>>>firewire port? >>>> >>>>On the same note, could I record a PPV when I order it with Myth instead >>>>of on my 6412? >>>> >>>>Thanks, >>>>Norm >>> >>>Have the channel/recording you want to extract playing, Power off, hit >>>select immediately, go to d11 and see what 5C is set to, only 0 will let >>>you transfer over firewire to a PC. You might be able to transfer a live >>>PPV while a recorded one you can't as well... >>> >>>You won't be able to take advantage of dual tuner over firewire, as all >>>firewire does it output what you send to the TV, so your best off with a >>>single tuner HDTV cablebox and no DVR functionality for Myth use. >> >>Thanks for the info. I'll check that out tonight. >> >>Now I have a new question: I noticed that the test-mpeg2 program can >>only capture about 2 gig. Does anyone know how I could increase this or >>is there a repository/list somehwere that I can get a stream grabber >>without size limits? I just might have to blow the dust off my old 'C' >>books. >> >>Thanks, >>Norm > > > I've been able to capture more than 2gig with test-mpeg2 (9.7G on the one cap > I still have that I can check the file size of). make sure its not a > filesystem limitation. There might be other reasons other people might know > of, but it can do >2G. >
I ran into the same 2G limit after checking my filesystem. I was able to create a 10G + size file using dd. The message I got when test-mpeg2 bailed was "File size limit exceeded". I got this version from the 1.0.0 tarball on the linux1394 website. I'm now trying a test-mpeg2 from an older tarball (0.1.0) to see if there are any differences since I diff'ed the source and there were a number of lines that were different. Hopefully this works. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
