Re: Record TV

Dear  Eduard,

thank you for this hint. I tried the application yesterday and it looked 
good. Unfortuantely there is a 'but' :-(
The win32 dlls are missing (of course!) and I don't know, where to get 
them from. I installed the Linux version of DivX5 but it sees to be 
independent from the avi lib. (Sorry my knowledge about the multimedia 
architecture in linux is rather bad...)
Can you tell me, where I could get the DLLs from ? And which one must be 
in the ~/win32 directory ?

Furthermore, I searched, whether it is possible to start avicap through 
a command line with recording options, but could not find that it was 
possible. This would be necessary to record time controlled, not just 
ripping old vhs tapes (which I also have to do... ) Did you managed to 
do that ?
If its not possible, the best alternative seems to be the way it was 
proposed in the article Graham pointed to. Or vcr with drawback of desync.

Thanks again, also to all other people gave me some hints. I will keep 
you informed...

best regards
Christian


Eduard Avetisyan wrote:

>Hi people,
>
>I'm doing that kind of things using avicap (avifile package,
>comes with latest SuSEs). It does the job wonderfully, can
>choose which codec with what attributes to take, and the
>captured file can be later edited with avirecompress (like
>making also the sound mp3 instead of PCM, or cut some parts).
>
>It reads also the xawtv channel setup, so you can switch to the
>one you want.
>
>And it's portable in sense that it plays both under linux with
>aviplay and mplayer, and windows "The playa" and media player...
>
>Check it out, is a great piece of software. Just one "but" - you
>need to have a fast CPU to compress to DivX realtime with
>acceptable quality (I think that's independent on what you use
>for recording anyway, right? :)
>
>Cheers
>      Eduard
>
>
>--- Christian Kuecherer <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>Dear Adam,
>>
>>thanks for the hint, I will check it out asap. Is it possible
>>to edit 
>>the recorded content, lets say in Broadcast 2000 ? (remove 
>>advertisments, etc...)
>>
>>Thanks
>>Christian
>>
>>Adam Johansson wrote:
>>
>>>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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