I use mplayer, or more precisely mencoder like this.
mencoder dvb://"$CHANNEL" -oac copy -ovc copy -quiet -endpos $TIME -o
$BASENAME.ts
I run that from a script which runs from the crontab.
It's like a really big video recorder.
The output is determined by "-ocv copy" which means keep it as whatever
it is. I believe it's an mpeg2 transport stream, which avidemux
couldn't edit.
I tried changing the -ovc to lavc which would have produced a mpeg4 avi
file. Unfortunately my processor isn't fast enoguh to do it on the fly,
so I re-encode $BASENAME.ts as a nice process, as soon as it's been
captured.
p.s. $CHANNEL is a name from my ~/.mplayer/channels.conf. It was
generated using the scan utility.
The $TIME variable lets me record a show for an hour or 30 mins etc.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been tring to find a way to record the stream to my hard drive
> and than edit it. Will
> VDR do this, or is there a simpler way? I've already tried to compile
> VDR and failed! I
> can't point the DVBDIR in the correct place for some reason. Is there
> a way round
> this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ben
>
>
>
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