Re: Record TV

Dear Adam,

great, thanks a lot for the link + help. That's very kind!
I'm really curios how it works !!! :-))
Linux is great stuff !!

best regards
Christian

Adam Johansson wrote:

>On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 11:17, Christian Kuecherer wrote:
>
>>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 ?
>>
>
>http://avifile.sf.net
>
>Has both the avifile project as well as a collection of many
>win32-codecs.
>
>These are the codecs; http://avifile.sourceforge.net/binaries-011002.tgz
>
>haven't tried avicap myself yet though I assume putting these codecs in
>/usr/lib/win32 would fix things... I know xine (http://xine.sf.net) uses
>them.
>
>Cheers! /Adam
> 
>
>>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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