Re: analog video capture - SuSE-8.1

Hi Alain,

I can prove that my old Hauppauge WinTV works equally well as on
7.x as on 8.2. bttv driver is there, and actually I guess all of
those TV-cards produce more-less equally bad picture (yet
acceptable, if you use the composite video input, not the
tuner). 

You can check if your card works with xawtv, motv or kwintv. For
capturing I'd recommend mencoder (part of mplayer). Another
choice could be avicap - it has nicer interface and makes work
easier, yet last time I used it wasn't that stable and would
crash every now and then. Maybe you're more lucky :) For
mencoder you have to play a bit with options - maybe I'll send
you one of my scripts later (if you need and if I find them :) 

Good luck
         Eduard

--- Alain Barthélemy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Less than two years ago (with SuSE-7.2 I think) I managed to
> capture
> analog video signals with TV Card Miro PCTV-Rave just for fun.
> Image
> is not perfect.
> Unfortunately it was dual-boot PC and my son decided to
> install M$ XP
> and this nice Mickeysoft had the nice idea to erase my Linux
> partition
> - I lost all my settings it took me weeks to configure.
> 
> Now I want to start all over again on SuSE-8.1.
> 
> I can have a second-hand PC PIII 1.?Gb, 128Mb Ram, 20Gb Hd
> 
> What TV card would you advise for analog video capture. On the
> Web I
> read that DC10+ cards worked very well but it was old cards I
> think.
> Pinnacle Studio DC10+ ?
> 
> I suppose there is still the bttv driver or equivalent on
> SuSE-8.1.
> 
> What softs are advised for divX compression. Sorry I lost all
> my written memos thanks to dear M$. I forgot the name of the
> soft I
> used last time to convert to DivX. I have now mplayer
> installed with all
> necessary codecs on a laptop and have no problem to read
> compressed
> .avi files. A long time ago I could see TV with Kwintv or
> Sawtv with
> the Miro PCTV-Rave card.
> 
> If I have the softs I can then spend a few weeks like last
> time to
> read the tutorials. I appreciate if you give a good link to a
> tutorial
> at the same time.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Alain Barthélemy
> [email protected]
> http://bartydeux.be
> Linux User #315631


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