Re: Record TV

On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 09:56, Christian Kuecherer wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I really tried hart, but could not find a good solution in Linux to 
> record TV/videos from my BT878 TV Card. The main issue is, which codec 
> and record tool to use.
> 
> So far my studies had following results:
> Record Tools:
> - broadcast 2000
> - ffmpeg
> - dvr (does not compile propperly under suse 7.3: format.h missing - 
> Anybody any hints ?)
> - mjpeg tools -  use lavrec to record. But there is no clear 
> documentation, whether bttv based TV cards are already supported.
> 
> Codecs:
> - Divx 4/5
> - MPEG 2
> - MJPEG
> 
> Some of my questions are:
> - Does anybody have found good solution to record directly to MPEG2 or 
> Divx ? If so, which software does the job ?
> - Has anybody experience with the mjpeg tools, and whether they can be 
> used with bt878 TV Cards?
> - is there a tool, which can be used to record directly into divx, or is 
> divx kept in a Quicktime wrapper?
> - Can broadcast 2000 record in divx somehow ?
> 
> Any hints or comments and ideas are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help,
> 
> best regards
> Christian Kuecherer
> 
> 
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Hello,

Check out this, it's neither divx nor mpeg2... It's Mpeg4 in a not so
portable implementation (regarding playback in other mediaplayers)
though it performs super when it comes to rcording tv-shows etc. for
later viewing.

http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/


Cheers! /Adam

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