Cristea Bogdan wrote:
In linux a good alternative would be kaffeine. I have used this with
my DVB tuner, but I am not sure if it is suitable for recording.
On 12/28/07, Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 27 December 2007 09:33, John Meyer wrote:
I have a TV card and I want to record programs with it. I've tried out
mythtv, but it seems a little too much for me. Are there any other
alternatives out there?
xawtv has a save to avi option. Not sure how good it is.
I use a Windows app (several, actually) if I want to
record video. about the best I've run across so far
(ease of use, cpu overhead, etc) is
Open Video Capture at
http://www.008soft.com/products/video-capture.htm
It isn't open source and it costs $30 and it doesn't work
with wine. With CIF (320x240) resolution (view and save)
at mpeg4 and a P4/2.4GHz system it uses less than
20% cpu. I installed it on a doctor's system that runs a
realtime patient data monitoring hardware/software app
that uses about 70% cpu and the video was able to run
concurrently without causing the system to lose any data.
He was tickled at being able to record the video of the
patient and time sync with the data collected. His
sessions run around 7 hours and the video files average
around 2GB, no problem for a dvd-r.
If you aren't too worried about cpu utilization, kick it up to
D1 resolution and let it fly. This program is the only one that
I found that met all my specs: it has low cpu %, it can be
resized, it has several codecs (or uses those that come with
Windows) and it can be made to stay "on top".
If you want Linux DVR software, I am sure that something
like ffmpeg and mencoder will read the video device and
output a file but I know not the commands.
Fred
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Hey Again,
On the topic of PVR software, UBUNTU and MYTHTV are heavily integrated
in a version just released called "MYTHBuntu" which I believe is a
"live to installed" disk,what is next? MYTHTV themselves just released a
live cd called "MYTHos" that boots, scans for tuner hardware and
channels then starts up MYTHTV, A very Ubuntu style 1-click install
formats your hard drive and installs the entire package settings and
all. (does a lousy job with raid setups)
If your still into Windoze, then there are several hacks out there to
upgrade an XP install to MCE, so if you buy MCE you don't need to
destroy your existing setup to install it. :) very nice.
It uses your cable companies TV guide to bring in a free version of an
EPG that all the others require a subscription too. Which makes the
100.00 buy in well worth it!
Any thing more I can do to help, let me know.
Unfortunately openSUSE is an "also ran" in this market place. If I
scripted at all I would take the Packman MYTHTV packages an write a
complete installer but........
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