> So this weekend I took a shot at geting vcr to work. I was unable to build > 1.09 as the avfile snapshot downloaded from thier web page would not build > for me. As I recall, even after I ran the included autogen.sh script > configure still complained about missing files.
Haven't lpayed with avifile for a while, so I don't know what is wrong here. > So I wound up building 1.08. I was able to make this work, failry well. > That is using the DivX :-) low-motion codec and a resolutin of 384, I am > able to record. It dorps about 1 frame every 2 two to 5 seconds in capture. > > > I didn't worry a whole lot about this, since I am buying the parts to build > a gaster machine (1.2G Athalon) to actully deploy this, and I assume this > will at least take care of the droped frams. > > A lot of what I want to record is fast motion (auto races), so I tried to > get the DivX :-) fast motion codec workign. Acording to the vcr web page, > this should work although the bitrate atribute can't be used. > ... > Waiting for video thread > All threads exited > v4l1: VIDIOCSYNC in ::~v4l1if > stan@yogi:/tmp$ > Script done on Sun Nov 25 17:29:01 2001 > > Has anyone made this, or any other codec other than DivX :-) low-motion > work? Don't know - it looks like you do not have the codec installed, or the directory is incorrect? (The fast motion codec worked fine for me, but under different software.) > Now on to playing. I decided to try mplayer, since it supports framebuffer. > > However I was unable to get it to scale the resultant save files up to the > size I'm used to seeing them in fbtv. > > Do I need to define a special mode for the framebuffer like i did for fbtv? > If so, can anyone send me a sample config? > > The closet I have come so far to getting what I wanted here was to use -vo > xv, and scale the resultant window to full screen manualy, in X. There must > be a better way to do this, right? mplayer uses hardware scaling when it is available - which is for "-vo x11", and some cards with the fb driver (I am not sure which though). I use "-vo xv -fs" to view full screen using hardware stretching. > PS. I understand that what I _really_ need to make this work is hardware > MPEG encoding. The WinTV PVR vard seems to have this. Is anyone aware of a > way to use this under Linux? Hardware compression isn't really required these days - especially not on a dedicated box. I have recorded a F1 race quite satisfactorily on my 600MHz Athlon using software compression. -justin _______________________________________________ Video4linux-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
