Recording Video file via TV-Card.

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tuxnet

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Wednesday, June 11th 2003, 3:41pm

Recording Video file via TV-Card.

Hi, I have a TV card and I am able to play backup anything that comes via the s-video cable

but I am unable to record the through put to a file, I don't realy care what format it is, all i want is to be able to record.

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tuxnet

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Monday, June 16th 2003, 3:00pm

Ok, I've got a software to capture the video, It's called Main Actor but now I have nother problem, I change the video size settings and unfortunately everytime I start the software up now, it crashes. :cry: I will keep trying, and if I find the answer I'll post it. :wink:

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heim

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Tuesday, July 15th 2003, 6:09pm

I usually use avirecord (part of the avifile package) for recording.
Since I have a fairly fast CPU I can directly record to XVid. You can use all (or most) codecs avifile supports for recording, too.
For cutting parts of the begiining or ending of an avifile you can use avirecompress (also avilfile). These tools are rather minimalistic but they work.

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tuxnet

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Wednesday, July 16th 2003, 11:38am

Thanks you for your input, I must admit since I upgraded mu system to Suse 8.2 Pro it comes with MainArtor software, it's brilliant I can recored just the way I wanted, but I am still going to try out this avifile software it my be easier.

Tell me do I need any sort of codecs to encode direct to Xvid ?

Many Thanks

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heim

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Friday, July 18th 2003, 6:11pm

I haven't used MainActor for more than a year. Back then it didn't support any codecs that allowed good compression in realtime so it was rather useless for recording up to some hours of video.

To encode with Xvid you need to download and install Xvid for linux (just google for it).
If you want to setup something like a digital video recorder you might want to try out : http://dvr.sourceforge.net/html/main.html

good luck

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tuxnet

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Friday, July 18th 2003, 7:28pm

thanks heim that dvr stuff looks good, I will definatly try it out. :lol:

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