"G Mc.Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After browsing over the mailing list, I didn't see anyway to time a > recording. "cat /dev/video > filename.mpg" doesn't really lend itself to > recording for a specific period of time.
You could use dd with an estimated file size, but you can as well use a short shell script that utilizes $! to get at a backgrounded PID, as already shown in the other reply. One could as well write a timed version of cat within a few minutes. If anyone is interested I can whip one up. All it takes is to call "alarm()" before starting to copy. > Also a 30 minute show is consuming 1.4 Gbytes, is there anyway to reduce > this. This is due to the DVD quality to which it defaults. You can adjust that with the bitrate parameters in the sysfs interface. CU, Andy _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
