-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 13 October 2003 08:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all, > > i owned a microsoft OS for a few weeks before switching to linux. in > those few weeks, i bought a hauppauge wincast TV card. it worked > marginarlly well, but the driver had "issues". > > anyway, i installed linux soon after and completely forgot about the > card, giving up on it ever being supported by linux. that was back in > the redhat 5.1 days, and supported hardware was ... sparse. > > anyway, i recently came across the card and did some research. it's now > supported by linux! hooray! after... > > reading ~linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv > recompiling the kernel > figuring out how to connect the card to my soundcard > playing with sound settings > hooking the card up to my VCR > > i got the card to work. it took a bit long to get working under linux, > but it's much less flakey. the windows driver crashed very often, > making the card painful to use (one of the reasons why i forgot about > the card). > > anyway, i want to put some of my old VCR tapes onto hard drive and > perhaps eventually burn them to DVD. > > > has anybody ever done this? i can use xawtv to watch my tapes, but for > some reason, it doesn't want to record. it refuses to record the movie > to disk (although i can get screenshots). > > i'm about to go to freshmeat, but if anybody does this kind of thing, > i'd like to hear what you use and about your experiences with this kind > of software. i'm a TOTAL newbie with video on linux, but i'd like to > get acquainted with it. > > thanks! > pete
Try something like..... mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l:input=1:norm=NTSC:width=640:height=480 -vop pp=fd/al -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=700:keyint=100 -oac mp3lame -lameopts aq=9:cbr:br=128 This will deinterlace and record video from my card's composite input, however I cannot seem to figure out how to get it to record audio, at least on my card, which simply passes audio through to the sound card via line in. - -- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 3B30 C6BE B1C6 9526 7A90 34E7 11DF 44F3 7217 7BC7 On pgp.mit.edu, import with `gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 72177BC7` Also available at http://www.cal.net/~ryan/ryan_at_mother_dot_com.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/i5e8Ed9E83IXe8cRAuGJAJkB7ZkQGxg1hJyyf9Z1W+8wWlBRyACgxE4R QTKdKydb5FzNG/0kMM0Q8zU= =n5tb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
