Hi I have used the following successfully using ivtv 5.1 on my Adaptec AVC-2410 video capture card:
cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg mpeg3toc test.mpg test.toc You can then open test.toc in Cinelerra I found before updateing to Cinelerra 2.0 that I couldn't load a large mpeg files. Hope this helps you Best Regards Trev On Tuesday 29 Nov 2005 15:58, Ahmed El-Daly wrote: > Thank you Keith. The guides provided are for use on Windows, not > Linux, I believe, as both VirtualDub and VirtualVCR are > Windows-centric. Are there any other tools that can be used under > Linux? > > Thanks, > Ahmed > > On 11/29/05, Keith C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2005, at 9:06 AM, Ahmed El-Daly wrote: > > > > Does anyone have an answer for this? > > Thanks. > > > > > > I'll give it a shot. > > > > from the mythtv-dev list: > > The ivtv captures from tape are notoriously full of missing video frames > > which break most post-processing programs. > > > > There's a good guide on http://doom9.org . They don't allow direct > > linking, so click on Guides, then TV-Capture & DV cameras, then the > > ProjectX reference. > > > > I think MythTV is also including an MPEG-2 to MPEG-2 transcoder that does > > a good job of cleaning up files (and cutting commercials). It's not > > active by default yet, but its working : > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/160704 > > > > I've never had any problem transcoding the ivtv MPEG-2's to other formats > > using ffmpegx, but I've never tried loading the raw MPEG-2 into an > > editing program. > > > > Good luck, > > Keith C > > > > > > > > > > On 11/28/05, Ahmed El-Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am running a PVR-150MCE successfully using the ivtv driver. I can > > successfully capture video from my handycam by running > > cat /dev/video > filename.mpg > > I can then view the file via mplayer fine. The problem is when trying > > to edit the file using any editing software as the file would either > > not load, or the timeline would be corrupt. > > > > Running mpgtx on the file produces the following output: > > mpgtx -i tape01.mpg > > warning: couldn't find any valid system header. I'm continuing anyway > > tape01.mpg > > Mpeg 2 Program Stream File [Video/Audio] > > Muxrate : 11.92 Mbps > > Estimated Duration: 204963825319936.00s > > Checking all time stamps (This may take a while.) ... > > Time stamps jumped from 9090.605522 to 158.258089 at position > > a4fa800 > > Time stamps jumped from 204963823077964.781250 to 225.758844 at > > position > > eb08800 > > Time stamps jumped from 204963823023420.562500 to 228.428178 at > > position > > edeb800 > > Time stamps jumped from 204963823082981.937500 to 252.285333 at > > position > > 10703800 > > Time stamps jumped from 204963823035993.562500 to 1583.848933 at > > positio > > n 66ffa800 > > Time stamps jumped from 2450.014222 to 793.404622 at position > > 9f655815 > > Time stamps jumped from 204963823040985.687500 to 2450.281156 at > > positio > > n 9f69a800 > > Time stamps jumped from 204963823021396.875000 to 2502.633467 at > > positio > > n a2d53000 > > Time stamps jumped from 204963823020408.750000 to 2579.576978 at > > positio > > n a7d6d000 > > Time stamps jumped from 9143.913511 to 2829.726889 at position > > b80b0000 > > Time stamps jumped from 48033.616644 to 3304.100800 at position > > d6d7f800 > > Time stamps jumped from 54546.910089 to 3441.471333 at position > > dfc7d800 > > Time stamps jumped from 4314.009689 to 59.762489 at position > > 1189fb815 > > Time stamps jumped from 18152.323900 to 5086.381289 at > > position 14aebf000 > > Time stamps jumped from 204963823030048.468750 to 5812.540044 > > at position 17a1be000 > > Time stamps jumped from 67606.088056 to 6657.250578 at > > position 1b10b0000 > > Time line is interupted at 16 times. > > That means at these points the time stamp is earlier than the previous > > one. > > You may have problems in joining and splitting this file, sorry. > > Aspect ratio 4/3 (TV) > > Interlaced, chroma format: 4:2:0 > > Size [720 x 480] 29.97 fps 9.60 Mbps > > Audio : Mpeg 1 layer 2 > > 384 kbps 48000 Hz > > Stereo, No emphasis > > > > Note that this is a 90 minute video! > > > > Thanks, > > Ahmed > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ivtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ivtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
