OK,
I'm jumping into this conversation late, but here are my 2 cents.
1. I have a KWorld el-generico TV tuner that works just fine with bttv and xawtv. I believe it is the same chipset that comes in the Haupaggue (spelling?) cards. I love xawtv. It is one of the _killer apps_ for sure. I configured all the settings in .xawtv and got exactly the TV in a window while I'm reading my e-mail I was looking for.
2. I've tried serveral combinations of recording with xawtv and mencoder and ending up with nothing even remotely inspiring. I always hoped I could write scripts called by cron to do some serious command line PVRing, but haven't gotten close yet. It's got to be possible, right? That's what TIVO is all about: Linux with a TV Card, a nice case, some specialized software, and a remote control.
You might want to check out MythTV (http://mythtv.org). I haven't used it, because my TV card can only capture under Windows, but it looks like a very slick project. If nothing else, you might get some tips from looking around.
Also, I've found the mplayer-users list (archived on mplayerhq.hu) to be a useful source of video capture/encoding tips.
Matt
3. Here is the part I don't get! These cards are supposed to do HARDWARE MPEG 1 and 2 encoding. Savign to AVI and then re-encoding into some MPEG format seems like ripping MP3s into WAV and then back out to OGG. I admit I don't get how any of this works, but shouldn't it be more straigtforward to just _catch_ the already encoded MPEG data and put it somewhere???
Dave M.
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi all,
ok, i ripped a southpark video with:
System: AMD Athlon 1.3GHz 2.4.22 w/ low latency Radeon QD very unloaded machine
name: southpark1.avi ripper: xawtv -noxv audio format: 8bit mono sample rate: 44100 video format: 24bit TrueColor (LE: bgr) fps: 30 video size: 384x288
the next step is to compress/encode it.
however, i first tried to watch the avi with mplayer. the quality was bad. whenever there was fast motion, it looked like the areas with fast motion had white horizontal lines interleaved with the normal video.
mplayer gave output which looks like it's related to this problem:
badly interleaved AVI file. switching to -ni mode.
i'm not sure what to do. i don't think it's a matter of my system not being powerful enough. i did tests at low fps of a few seconds of video, and got the same "interleaved" effect. it was actually worse at lower fps.
and there really aren't that many options with xawtv. i've played with fps, sample rate, and video format. nothing seems to help.
in xawtv, there are options to save as "single file raw video" and "apple quicktime" format. i take it these are container formats that sam was talking about.
any suggestions?
thanks! pete
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