I contacted Plextor for support on this issue. Hopefully I get a positive response.
Richard. ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- From: Richard van Paasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 03-Nov-2006 00:38 Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] How can I do to handle my plextor convertX(livetv(pause, etc...record...) > > Wow, this sounds like a nice device! It has hardware DIVX encoding support > for about EUR 170. MythTV does already support it. Freevo should support it > too, IMO. A yearly computer fare is organized in my town this month (reduced > prices for hardware...). I'll try and see if I can buy this device and write > a module for Freeevo (starting with v1.6.x). > > Richard. > > > ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- > From: Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: 02-Nov-2006 23:26 > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] How can I do to handle my plextor > convertX(livetv(pause, etc...record...) > > > Laurent Dufréchou wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > I'm running freevo v1.5.4. > > > I want to use it as follow: > > > 1/ look TV > > > 2/ look TV and record it at the same time > > > 3/ record only tv > > > 4/others freevo cool things :) > > > > > > step 4 is ok... but don't know how to handle step 1,2,3 :) > > > > > > To watch tv I can use this command in console mode: > > > ./gorecordmod -input 0 -mode secam-l -bitrate 4000 -stdout /dev/null > > > 2>/dev/null | bfr -m 800000 -b 100000000 -p | mplayer -vo gl2 -delay > > > -0.3 -vf pp=mcdeint=3 - >/dev/null 2>/dev/null & > > > > > > ./gorecordmod is the apps that initialize my convertx and grab the video > > > stream to stdout > > > bfr is my 'livetv' buffer (here 100MB) > > > mplayer - my tv viewer > > > > > > to watch tv and record it I can with this comand(!): > > > ./gorecordmod -input 0 -mode secam-l -bitrate 4000 -stdout /dev/null > > > 2>/dev/null | tee -i grabbed.avi | bfr -m 800000 -b 100000000 -p | > > > mplayer -vo gl2 -delay -0.3 -vf pp=mcdeint=3 - >/dev/null 2>/dev/null & > > > > > > to record only: > > > ./gorecordmod -input 0 -mode secam-l -bitrate 4000 -duration xxxxx > > > grabbed.avi > > > > > > How can I manage to make freevo call these commands ? Can I define new > > > menu entry? > > > As freevo a a TV menu perhaps I can do something with it no? > > > > > > I know this is not the usual ways to use freevo but the convertx is only > > > supported by mythtv and I WANT FREEVO! > > > > > > :) > > > (some python hacking don't afraid me :) so... ) > > > If it works perhaps we should had support to the convertx for a future > > > release of freevo? > > If you not afraid of doing some python hacking, then you should be able > > to get this to work. First don't do you changes against 1.5.4, use the > > svn version for rel-1. > > svn co svn://svn.freevo.org/freevo/branches/rel-1/freevo freevo-1.x > > then when you have finished you can send in a patch generated by > > svn diff > my-patch.patch > > > > The key to watching TV and recording TV are the VideoGroup settings. You > > can find these in the sources by doing search with grep. > > grep -r --include="*py" VideoGroup src > > > > The group_type in the VideoGroup controls how things are done for a > > particular video device. > > > > BTW how do you find this video device, it looks very interesting as it > > can record both mpeg-1/2/4 and divx formats. > > > http://www.plextor.be/products/px-tv402u.asp?choice=ConvertX%20PVR%20PX-TV402U > > > > Regards > > Duncan > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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