-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Johan Duinkerken wrote: > Hello, > > hopefully somebody can point me in the right direction: for a (small) > project of mine, I need to capture the mpeg-stream of my PVR350 to a > mpeg-file. No big deal, if done manually: just > > "cat /dev/video0 > something.mpg". > > Problem is, that I want to do this from within my program. At the moment, > I open a shell (programmatically) and execute the "cat"-command, as > described above. To stop capturing, I terminate the shell. It's definitely > not very sophisticated and it acts like that: sometimes it works > perfectly, sometimes it starts capturing but doesn't stop and sometimes it > wont't start capturing at all. > > Question: what is the proper way to start/stop capturing a mpeg-stream > from a PVR350 to a file? (is there a ivtv-api perhaps? Been looking, but > couldn't recognise anything as such). > > Help would be very much appreciated!
If programming in perl, you want to look at the record-v4l2.pl script as an example of how to do this, plus it does all the ioctl setups you might need via the Video::ivtv perl module. Basically you just open the file and read from it, like the other posters said. :) - -- James A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer Xperience, Inc. http://www.pcxperience.org/ GPG Key Available at http://www.pcxperience.com/gpgkeys/james.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCgNmCtUXjwPIRLVERAgGEAJwOugwmAikFxTQo9p/SzuFvw77JXwCgvBWx 5s1sBXqloaxScp+qZ2EaaQI= =l+fg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
