You can take a look here, first lines: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Plextor_ConvertX_PVR
A pretty good device, that don't use a lot of CPU. The good point is that all drivers are open sources :) that's why I've choosen it ! The bad point, only myth tv support it :( Well... until now ;) The quality is pretty good and I prefer encode a film in mpeg2-dvd 712*576 1Go for 45min I think, but excellent quality with no cpu overhead :) In fact you can choose tha bitrate and encoding so may vary a lot. The only thing it can't do (from what I've tryed) is encoding audio stream as mp3. Currently it encodes audio with PCM, that's why the file is (so) big. This is the first video capture device I bought so I can't do the comparison with others :) I had A/V sync problem with the recording app, but I found on internet a A/V sync patch that corrected the problem. I will take a look to the python code to see If can do something with it :) Regards, Laurent Duncan Webb a écrit : > 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? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
